as i understand it the human piece was chosen from the available dataset

your comment seems to imply intentional misrepresentations

the thing about recordings of performances of music from these periods and composers is that the music is public domain but the performer can copyright the performance

if the human performance midi recordings dataset used in the thesis was legally able to also include the performances by Valentina Lisitsa, Pollini, and Horowitz i am unable to see how the net would fail to make use of their contribution

also for the best results those performers would need to be involved in the production of those midi files because they carry with them a lot of a subjective meta information

i commend the human performers in the available midi files for their effort both in their expression of the piece as well as their desire to make music accessible in a verbose spec'd digital data standard

regardless i feel the real impressive part of the thesis is taking the droned midi and altering it to sound like the human midi.. which i believe is the point moreso than the lcd wow! effect of an, author defined, 'musical turing test'

i mean, really.. access to: the thesis, a full blog write up, repo containing code and a jupyter notebook, and the dataset used;

this work was excellent and the write up phenomenal