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I can't believe how good those songs are and it's all computer generated. Thank you for creating this.
Hey 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…
As stated in other comments, if this was an app (in my Mac menu bar and/or on my iPhone) this would be the quickest $3-5/month I’d spend.
I'm a big fan of procedural/generative music, and have created some of my own. I tend to take a very different approach from Alex, embracing determinism rather than infinite variations, trying to make something more musically complex rather than ambient. If you're interested, the most recent piece I've made is here, accompanied by a visualization of what's happening and a detailed writeup explaining how the system wo…
This is very cool! Some things were broken for me(On Firefox 65.0.1, Ubuntu 18.04): * Pause button doesn't immediately pause, the current note(?) ends over a period of time before pausing * Fullscreen, and a few other buttons don't work. Also, I can't tell if my mouse click even registered on the button Very interesting project nonetheless, and the music generated is quite nice to listen to. I particularly like how w…
The pause button is actually an interesting design decision. The way it works currently allows the system act more like a physical instrument — if you hit a bell three times and then stop, the bell keeps ringing. This has some utility when the piece is being used in a public setting, or when being accompanied by human musicians playing live. That's why there's a mute button. Though you raise a good point. For the web, I should probably change that so it's in keeping with digital expectations, and pause the sound as well as the performance.
This is great, I paid for a lifetime membership to brain.fm but the app is still broken on iOS. If these can play for longer then 25 minutes (where brain.fm dies on mobile for me) then I’ve found my go-to.
Also I've had nothing but positive experiences when emailing for help / support / suggestions, have you tried that?
You probably did the lifetime membership when the intro / debut post was on HN a few years back... not sure if the app developer(s) are still active on HN (probably?) but you could probably contact / post / follow up that way too.
If you like this type of thing and want to go darker/heavier, Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse and Cryo Chamber are personal favorites of mine for “music” while programming.
The Red Strings Club OST and the calmer Deus Ex soundtracks are really excellent for programming too. The mood I attribute it to is "competent thoughtfulness with light pressure toward action". I know that is a silly way to put it, but that is music for you. Similarly good are parts of the Fallout OSTs and Minecraft OST. I have listend to a bunch of game and movie OSTs for films and games I haven't even watched, it's…
I am definitely stealing this for my twitter bio.
This is great, I paid for a lifetime membership to brain.fm but the app is still broken on iOS. If these can play for longer then 25 minutes (where brain.fm dies on mobile for me) then I’ve found my go-to.
Yikes. Also have a lifetime membership, don't recall the 25-minute hiccup. Probably haven't used the app in the last 30 days, did it become broken recently? Also I've had nothing but positive experiences when emailing for help / support / suggestions, have you tried that? You probably did the lifetime membership when the intro / debut post was on HN a few years back... not sure if the app developer(s) are still activ…
Ah well.
Hey 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…
Simple, but pleasant. This is how it starts. It might take some time, but I think most ambient music in video games will eventually be procedural. EDIT: Just want to say that these are better than I expected. As good or better than about half the ambient music recommendations I get on Spotify.
Hey 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…
I just left a top-level comment, but this is an old topic now so I don't know if you'll see it -- I wanted to thank you for making this and releasing it for free; it really helped me to find the kind of calm concentration that usually eludes me.