Silicon symphony: Music composed by computer monitoring people's emotional response to Beethoven to be played in public for the first time tonight

Maestro: A computer has created a remix of of the second movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony which is to be played in public for the first time tonight It's enough to make Beethoven roll over in his grave. A computer programme that composes music by monitoring a person's emotional response to sounds, is to have one of its musical creations performed by a full chamber orchestra at a prestigious music festival tonight. Using its artificial intelligence, the silicon songsmith has produced a remix of the second movement of Beethoven's 7th Symphony, which will be performed by the The Ten Tors Orchestra at the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival in Plymouth. Researchers played the German composer's seminal piece to three test subjects as they underwent MRI scans while the programme monitored their brains for emotional indicators. Then using a programmed knowledge of music, it generated a new piece designed to create a similar emotional response.