Who—or what—is Emily Howell? The composer has a new CD coming out, but "her" work has stirred up confusion. That's because Emily Howell is a computer program, quite literally the brain child of UC ...

Composer-conductor Eric Whitacre’s presentation Tuesday at The Society of the Four Arts was equal parts lecture and performance. Whitacre is the creator of the virtual choir, a phenomenon that brings ...

Can a computer program really generate musical compositions that are good enough to have been written by humans? Professor David Cope thinks so, and has dedicated decades of research to the topic of ...