Sir David Cope in his room with Emmy
Ever heard of a musical genius that's a robot? A creative composer of beautiful pieces of music that's probably you never heard of, but it's true and her name is Emmy.
Emmy is just the "nickname" of Sir David Cope's musical genius EMI, which stands for Experiments in Musical Intelligence.
Sir Cope started this dream project 20 years ago using an old Apple Workstation. With his passion and love for unconventional music, he designed a musically intelligent cyborg that's able to create or mimic famous musical scores of Mozart and Beethoven. And so Emmy was born.
EMI or Emmy used to be the world’s most sophisticated artificial intelligent musical composer, and because Sir Cope managed to bring her to life, he somehow became the musical Dr. Frankenstein of our time. Emmy composed several hundreds of musical scores of classical heavyweights styles, with very impressive scores that classical music intellectuals failed to recognize "her music" as computer-generated. But not until 6 years ago, when Emmy was gone from the spotlight.
However, just recently, we heard news that Sir David Cope is back with a daughter version of Emmy, which was formally introduced to the public last month. And now, we will hear once again great musical scores of Emmy and see more of her as Emily Howell.
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