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🗓️ 15 October 2021
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
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0:35.0 | I'm Teresa Carey, and this is Scientific Americans' 60 Second Science. |
0:41.9 | Every morning at 5 o'clock, composer Walter Rozoa would sit down at his computer to anticipate |
0:48.0 | a particular daily email. It came from six time zones away, where a team had been working all night, or all day rather, |
0:56.8 | to draft Beethoven's unfinished 10th Symphony, almost two centuries after his death. |
1:03.5 | The email contained hundreds of variations, and Morsoa listened to them all. |
1:08.9 | By 9, 10 o'clock in the morning, it's like I'm already in heaven. |
1:13.9 | Rzzoa was listening for the perfect tune, a sound that was unmistakably Beethoven. But the phrases |
1:20.0 | he was listening to weren't composed by Beethoven. They were created by artificial intelligence, |
1:25.3 | a computer simulation of Beethoven's creative process. |
1:29.3 | The artificial intelligence gave me hundreds and hundreds of options. |
1:42.7 | Some are better than others, but then there is that one which grabs you. |
1:49.3 | And that was just this beautiful process. |
1:54.3 | Ludwig von Beethoven was one of the most renowned composers in Western music history. |
2:00.1 | When he died in 1827, he left behind musical |
2:03.8 | sketches and notes that hinted at a masterpiece. There was barely enough to make out a phrase, |
2:09.4 | let alone a whole symphony. But that didn't stop people from trying. In 1988, |
2:14.0 | musicologist Barry Cooper attempted, but he didn't get beyond the first movement. |
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