This video is quite interesting. It doesn’t have anything to do with music – at least not yet. But let’s consider how far we’ve come with digital recording and modeling technology over the last decade or so. Our Digital Music column in the upcoming January/February 2011 issue finds Tawgs Salter (Lights, The Midway State, Josh Groban) discussing how to make digital drums sound real. I mention this because there’s obviously still something about the "human" elements to music that make it appealing to many. But how far are we from software being able to emulate those nuances? How far are we from computers using formulas and algorithms to generate radio-ready pop songs on their own? To say there’s not already a pretty clear formula in place would be naive. In any case, let’s geek out for a few minutes…

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