I imagine someday you'll be able to tie this to a neural sensor for a feedback loop that enables machine learning to generate the exact music for the exact mood you want.
You don't actually need a neural sensor for that, right?
Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music
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#62I imagine someday you'll be able to tie this to a neural sensor for a feedback loop that enables machine learning to generate the exact music for the exact mood you want.
You don't actually need a neural sensor for that, right?
For targeting general levels of physiological stimulation probably not. You might be able to get away with basic vital signs, maybe some sort of stress detection. With a neural sensor though it might be able to lead you into deep meditative or even lucid dreaming like states.
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#63Hey folks, I'm the creator of the site and the music on it. I'm happy people are enjoying the music. I see some people are having a rough time on mobile devices so I wanted to help with that. I have found that iOS Safari will mute the site if you have your iPhone in silent mode (there might be a way for me to fix this but I haven't explored it much yet). However, you'll probably find that many of the pieces snap crac…
A heads up. Your site seems to be fingerprinting my device through audio (firefox addin for audio fingerprint blocking).
Have you confirmed that the add-on doesn't simply trigger if a website uses the WebAudio API? All fingerprinting techniques also have legitimate applications. If they could be reliably distinguished from non-malicious uses, browsers would have blocked them long ago.
Re: Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music
#64Hey folks, I'm the creator of the site and the music on it. I'm happy people are enjoying the music. I see some people are having a rough time on mobile devices so I wanted to help with that. I have found that iOS Safari will mute the site if you have your iPhone in silent mode (there might be a way for me to fix this but I haven't explored it much yet). However, you'll probably find that many of the pieces snap crac…
A heads up. Your site seems to be fingerprinting my device through audio (firefox addin for audio fingerprint blocking).
So a website designed to play sound is accessing your sound information?
Re: Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music
#65Hey folks, I'm the creator of the site and the music on it. I'm happy people are enjoying the music. I see some people are having a rough time on mobile devices so I wanted to help with that. I have found that iOS Safari will mute the site if you have your iPhone in silent mode (there might be a way for me to fix this but I haven't explored it much yet). However, you'll probably find that many of the pieces snap crac…
This is a fantastic piece of software. I’ll use it a lot while programming. The generated performances are great.
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#66With this and other generated music, often it feels like you are only capturing local information about what it means to be a song, and maybe missing something global. For example things can feel a bit disconnected, chords and progressions that don't "transition" properly. To me, that is a bit unpleasant. I feel like that means you need to give it some extra constraints, but this might depend on the style.
Agreed, and I think that speaks to the difficulty of being sufficiently grounded in both worlds — music and programming. To make generative music that is rich in detail and follows the thousands of conditioned expectations of listeners and that has a narrative arc ("global connectedness") at multiple time scales, you need that grounding, interesting & unexpected constraints, and a lot of practice. I make generative m…
Absolutely agree with all of this.
The sonic part comes down to production values.
The problem with most generative art is that it's treated as a programming exercise, not as a tool for producing the best and most polished work.
It's fairly easy to hack together a music generating system, but producing tracks or output to a professional standard is a harder problem.
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#67Hey folks, I'm the creator of the site and the music on it. I'm happy people are enjoying the music. I see some people are having a rough time on mobile devices so I wanted to help with that. I have found that iOS Safari will mute the site if you have your iPhone in silent mode (there might be a way for me to fix this but I haven't explored it much yet). However, you'll probably find that many of the pieces snap crac…
Great stuff. Look into Fourier transformation / inverse Fourier transformations and clipping to remove the crackling sound.
The crackling is probably due to missed buffers. Additional processing of the sound would likely only serve to exacerbate the problem.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great stuff. Look into Fourier transformation / inverse Fourier transformations and clipping to remove the crackling sound.
Can you elaborate? Why would a transform be needed only on mobile devices? Why wouldn't the OS handle whatever's needed to produce audio in a platform-agnostic way, especially on the web? Very interested to know more.
I suspect the commenter meant that when the buffer runs empty because the device can't compute new samples quickly enough, the last seen power spectrum (power versus frequency) is briefly maintained in the output. This filler is computed by a cheaper process.
Re: Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music
#69Hey folks, I'm the creator of the site and the music on it. I'm happy people are enjoying the music. I see some people are having a rough time on mobile devices so I wanted to help with that. I have found that iOS Safari will mute the site if you have your iPhone in silent mode (there might be a way for me to fix this but I haven't explored it much yet). However, you'll probably find that many of the pieces snap crac…
This is fantastic. I love that it is a progressive web app. It would be nice to have a feature to populate the cache in one tap, so I can take it with me in the underground without having to play each song first.
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#70Thanks for sharing this! I just spent, I'm not sure, maybe an hour and a half listening to it ('Trees', to be specific) while reading. I usually struggle to concentrate for extended periods, but this really seemed to help. Just the right balance to be calming and undistracting, but interesting enough to occupy the part of my mind that would normally jump out every 10 minutes and suggest a change of focus.