I think the Music Genome project is misleadingly-named. A genome is generative: there is a mapping from a genome to an organism. There is no reverse mapping. In the case of music, there is a reverse mapping from a piece of music to these 400 odd features, but there’s no forward mapping.
And that misleading name has indeed misled the person who suggests using the detective novel features as a generative representation. They’re not generative. They’re just observed features. It’s a useful distinction to keep in mind.
I think the Music Genome project is misleadingly-named. A genome is generative: there is a mapping from a genome to an organism. There is no reverse mapping. In the case of music, there is a reverse mapping from a piece of music to these 400 odd features, but there’s no forward mapping.
And that misleading name has indeed misled the person who suggests using the detective novel features as a generative representation. They’re not generative. They’re just observed features. It’s a useful distinction to keep in mind.