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Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music

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Re: Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music

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Post by aaron-lebo »

shakna wrote: post #10
have_faith wrote: post #6

No idea how the text relates to the music, but beautifully haunting none the less.

> Each article functions as a step sequencer, where the letters are the sequencer steps and the track titles are regular expressions that switch the steps on and off. The mapping is here. [0] (So far as I can tell) [0] https://github.com/AlesTsurko/microscale/blob/gh-pages/scrip...

Is there not a license on this?

Re: Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music

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Post by smoe »

I love how the results sounds, so I wanted to now how it works.

Very briefly glancing over the code and listening to the audio files in the samples folder:

The six articles correspond two six different voices or "instruments" which are pre-recorded samples of drone like sound and sequences of notes varying in pitch and speed. The letters in the article then trigger play and stop events for the samples according to a mapping.

Example for 'u':

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlesTsurko/microscale/gh-p...

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlesTsurko/microscale/gh-p...

As the description indicates, there doesn't seem to be any tone generation or modulation going on in the browser.

Re: Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music

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Post by alestsurko »

smoe wrote: post #17

I love how the results sounds, so I wanted to now how it works. Very briefly glancing over the code and listening to the audio files in the samples folder: The six articles correspond two six different voices or "instruments" which are pre-recorded samples of drone like sound and sequences of notes varying in pitch and speed. The letters in the article then trigger play and stop events for the samples according to a…

Exactly. There is a farther explanation in the interview: http://www.preservedsound.com/news/ales-tsurko-microscale-ge...

Re: Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music

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Post by alestsurko »

shakna wrote: post #10
have_faith wrote: post #6

No idea how the text relates to the music, but beautifully haunting none the less.

> Each article functions as a step sequencer, where the letters are the sequencer steps and the track titles are regular expressions that switch the steps on and off. The mapping is here. [0] (So far as I can tell) [0] https://github.com/AlesTsurko/microscale/blob/gh-pages/scrip...

...and you can change the mapping file to use it as an instrument for your own music, btw.
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