The Music Code : Solving Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and Composing the Future

In The Music Code, Santiago journeys through musical and technological history, launched by the question: What does it mean that Artificial Intelligence can finish Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony? Ranging from manmade music of more than 40,000 years ago to a future where superintelligent technology routinely writes music, The Music Code explores?what?it means to be human in an ever-evolving world in which music and technology?collide. 

In riveting detail Santiago narrates how Pythagoras,?Saint Hildegard, Johannes Gutenberg, Franz Schubert, Thomas Edison, Gershwin,?and a host of other musical and technology giants and forgotten geniuses grappled with the same contradictions and concerns that we face today, and how they contributed to the growth of?art-focused?technology in the best way they knew how.?Their legacies are still with us.?The way we frame discussions about creativity and technology are largely the way they framed them.?But, as Santiago shows by recalling his own radical, futuristic work in AI-based music, it is not the only way.