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Friday Fun Thread for September 26, 2025

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Principles such as tension and release, foreshadowing, thematic development, chord resolution are the essential tools of virtually every composer, regardless of genre and whether the composer is actively aware of it or not. While often discussed in a classical context, their application is universal and apply to pretty much all genres.

This seems like a consistent weakness in at least current AI-generated music, which often does well with short-term musical grammar but fails to build a cohesive, long-form structure, resulting in a piece that feels aimless and unsatisfying, IE "it doesn't go anywhere".

These same concepts of building expectation and providing resolution are fundamental to other time-based art forms, such as literature and film, and to effective communication in general.

I think this feels similar to how earlier text generating models wrote and similar to how they still struggle to write longer form text. Perhaps the issue is an insufficiently large context window or perhaps it's something else more fundamental to how the models function, I don't know.