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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 smoe »

alestsurko wrote: post #18
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...

Great work, fitting everything together so well!

How did you go about deciding on the mapping setting like "shouldPauseEventOnMatch", "isLoop" and "eventLength"? Is there a logic behind it or more testing and listing what works together?

Re: Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music

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Post by shakna »

alestsurko wrote: post #19
shakna wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Now that's the modularity that really appeals to me. Nicely done.

Re: Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music

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Post by shakna »

aaron-lebo wrote: post #15
shakna wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

I'm not the author, so best direct things their way. But I did open an issue for it. [0]

[0] https://github.com/AlesTsurko/microscale/issues/1

Re: Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music

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Post by alestsurko »

shakna wrote: post #23
aaron-lebo wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there not a license on this?

I'm not the author, so best direct things their way. But I did open an issue for it. [0] [0] https://github.com/AlesTsurko/microscale/issues/1

Done. Thanks!

Re: Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music

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Post by alestsurko »

smoe wrote: post #21
alestsurko wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Great work, fitting everything together so well! How did you go about deciding on the mapping setting like "shouldPauseEventOnMatch", "isLoop" and "eventLength"? Is there a logic behind it or more testing and listing what works together?

Thanks!

I started with the composition (the music one). So these have been dictated by composition techniques: some samples should play in a loop, others should be played fully before the sequencer's cursor increments etc.

Re: Microscale – turn random Wikipedia articles into music

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Post by alestsurko »

jslakro wrote: post #25

How can I play the articles I choose?

Due to the album's concept there is no such a feature, sorry. But you can fork the project on github and try to set attribute contenteditable to "true" for the div, which you'd like to fill up with your text. The buffers have ids "buffer-1", "buffer-2" etc.
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