Can a computer programme create the perfect song?

Aug 08, 2012, 10:17 AM

Dr Bob MacCallum a bioinformatician at Imperial College London introduces Darwin Tunes – a computer programme and experiment he invented to see if natural selection exists in the world of beats and loops. Can the idea of survival of the fittest be applied to music? Professor Armand Leroi investigates. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01ljk56