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Show HN: Kizina – Self-Executing, Interactive Music Album Technology

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Re: Show HN: Kizina – Self-Executing, Interactive Music Album Technology

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Post by paulasmuth »

visarga wrote: post #2

So, the music is locked into a dedicated player which could potentially also spread viruses while at it? And for each album, the music player is duplicated?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

BTW I do actually enjoy the linked music (allthough I have to admit I'm listening on soundcloud)!

Re: Show HN: Kizina – Self-Executing, Interactive Music Album Technology

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Post by paulasmuth »

welder wrote: post #4

This is a great way to prevent people from hearing your music... nobody wants to trust your "Album" app to not contain a virus.

It's not an entirely new art form. The demoscene [0] has been going strong far longer than most of us have even been coding. So apparently some people _will_ execute interactive art.

Also, you can still listen to their music on soundcloud [1] if you don't want to review the code. It's open source after all, which can't be said for most demos...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene -- Check this video for a neat example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AUpZNq2vSQ

[1] https://soundcloud.com/nemesis-fixx/

Re: Show HN: Kizina – Self-Executing, Interactive Music Album Technology

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Post by RossBencina »

Not sure about "world's first." Here's an album released on Raspberry-Pi Zero from a couple of months back:

"Musician Releases Album as a Live Coding Device on a Raspberry Pi Zero" https://blog.hackster.io/musician-releases-album-as-a-live-c...

Re: Show HN: Kizina – Self-Executing, Interactive Music Album Technology

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Post by notahacker »

welder wrote: post #4

This is a great way to prevent people from hearing your music... nobody wants to trust your "Album" app to not contain a virus.

Why would an application that was a music album be any more likely to be a virus than any other piece of software?

I'd have thought the bigger obstacle to people hearing your music is that people tend to prefer to listen to music in their music player of choice, in their own playlists or on shuffle. Then again, maybe creative control over how the songs that compose the album are listened to is part of the app's raison d'etre.

Re: Show HN: Kizina – Self-Executing, Interactive Music Album Technology

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Post by stephencanon »

RossBencina wrote: post #6

Not sure about "world's first." Here's an album released on Raspberry-Pi Zero from a couple of months back: "Musician Releases Album as a Live Coding Device on a Raspberry Pi Zero" https://blog.hackster.io/musician-releases-album-as-a-live-c...

See also the completely-in-hardware "1-bit symphony" (http://www.1bitsymphony.com/) and innumerable other projects.
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