What Amazon did in that video reminds me of the Tesla pickup truck promotion/unveiling where Elon Musk was smashing the windows on his Hot-Wheels truck, or that ?sabotaged? performance with Madonna at Eurovision. Amazon’s unveil was bungled and perhaps sabotaged as well. Coultan lyrics seemed a blatant attack – “Now i’m a brain in a jar.” Ode to joy?
Sometimes i have bad dreams and think that technology has us all doomed.
If I get one of these Amazon things, along with the new Roland Jupiter XM with the I-arppegio, then I don’t even have to think anymore. I’ll just hold a beer in one hand, and press a key with the other. Or maybe this will push me over the edge to getting a cat. I bet the cat comes up with some good stuff.
Weak sauce, unless your target musical audience is my grandma…?! 
This doesn’t really seem like generative music in the Eno sense of the word. But more like the cheesy Yamaha PRS play along settings.
I like it, I am starting a new genre called Grandma-tech.
But then you’ll have to change your name to “HoldMyOWNBeer”!
I guess that doesn’t really have the same ring to it. Point taken.
Oh nice, I love his podcast but somehow missed that one.
Even so, the fact that Microsoft’s Songsmith somehow did a better job 10 years ago is really saying something.
I’d like to see what it’d do if he only played the melody of Ode to Joy without the backing chords…