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Will We Ever Run Out of New Music?

VsauceCited 3× on HN, 2015-2020
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16.8M views · 13 years ago · explainer · evergreen

Vsauce asks whether music will ever run out of new melodies. It counts the possible note combinations and discusses how common chord progressions and remixing affect originality.

HN uses it as the reference for counting how many songs or melodies are possible from a finite set of notes.

Music theory, synthesis & productionRecreational & visual mathProbability & game theory#musictheory#combinatorics#melody#originality#vsauce

3 comments from Hacker News

@grenoire2020 · in “How much innate knowledge can the genome encode?”

This is likely akin to the question of how many individual songs you can write with the chromatic scale ( ▶ this video ).

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@throwmeback2019 · in “Millennials still recognise songs from music’s 1960s-90s golden age, study finds”

I don't have much time because I'm at work, so I won't write everything I have on my mind. I've been in your spot before, I also have perfect pitch (which I'd argue is irrelevant to the discussion) and I severely disagree. There's more music being produced than ever before. There is a vast amount of music you didn't listen to yet - it's humanly impossible to sift through it all. There's obviously a lot of cheap, quickly produced music, but IMHO the way you describe it makes it feel like "music died 15 years ago". It didn't. E.g. we still have readily identifiable trends in music (eg. indie, vaporwave, chillwave, trap beats). Filling up concert halls isn't a viable way of measuring an artist's achievement in the internet age for me. People go to concert just because they know the band's name, because someone bought them a ticket or because the media built up the hype. As for melodies - we won't run out of them anytime soon. ▶ this video

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@cleansy2015 · in “Show HN: Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I.”

This could replace my spotify subscription at all. It's exciting to hear a song that I and a software have made for the first time and maybe I am the only one who ever listens to it*. Michael from Vsauce talked about 'will we ever run out of new music?' ▶ this video

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