AI Composes Bach: Can Machines Master Classical Form?

Can artificial intelligence truly grasp the soul of classical music, or is it just mimicking the masters? A look at machine-made compositions, the tech behind them, and what it means for creativity.

Few names in Western music conjure a sense of structural perfection and theological profundity like Johann Sebastian Bach. His fugues are not only exercises in counterpoint but windows into a musical logic so robust that it has become foundational for nearly all Western harmonic thinking. So when artificial intelligence systems began generating fugues a…