For all its apparent unoriginality, “Daddy's Car” is one of the most remarkable unremarkable songs ever written.
Computers are writing more and more music these days. But they're not following a mysterious, inward-springing muse, humming melodies because they liked the way the clouds looked outside the window that day. No, like everything else machines do, they are making music because we are telling them to—and companies are investing millions of dollars in this complicated act of ventriloquism. Besides Flow Machines, which is funded by a $2.5 million grant from the European Research Council, there is also Magenta, an initiative launched by Google last year.
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