ge wang Computers are not used to make music in the same way that most people use computers to make music. He uses computers to create computer music. Wang works as an associate professor in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford. He also runs the school Famous Laptop OrchestraHe was a co-founder of music app maker Smule, and created a programming language called Chuck that turns code into sound. He understands how computers, music, and humans interact more deeply than most people. He also has some ideas about where this is all headed.
But This episode of VergecasTeaThe third and last in our mini-series about the future of music, we chat with Wang about what's next for computer music. He tells us about teaching our students to play with technology rather than master it, and how device makers should think about their work in the age of AI.
This conversation goes to some unexpected and deep places, as do many conversations about AI. We talk a lot about what it means to be creative and even human in a world full of technology making everything more efficient, less complex, and more homogenized.
Whether you're writing emails or writing Symfony, there's a tool designed to make it easier. But is the goal easy? And if it's not, how do we preserve all the things that make hard work worthwhile? What are we, humans, here even now? Like I said, it got deeper. But we enjoyed it, and we think you will too.
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