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Re: Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track

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Probably my favorite album for programming and other work that require concentration. I still haven't encountered anything like it. I wish there was more.

Check out the artist Solar Fields

Oh nice, just realized Solar Fields did both the Mirror's Edge games' soundtracks

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What is a good way to go about working with a new JS library? I only have used Python, Java, and C#. All the tutorials I find on tone.js just include the js code but not information on how to link the library.

I would like to play around but getting the dev environment has stumped me.

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Probably my favorite album for programming and other work that require concentration. I still haven't encountered anything like it. I wish there was more.

Check out the artist Solar Fields

The Mirror's Edge soundtrack got me into Solar Fields, and it's remained in my programming rotation since it came out, along with that of Mirror's Edge: Catalyst.

Example from Catalyst - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fb5_zVk2gY&t=1h46m48s

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Probably my favorite album for programming and other work that require concentration. I still haven't encountered anything like it. I wish there was more.

You should give a listen to the early Autechre or Speedy J. Or anything Warp put out in the 90s.

Worth to mention Boards of Canada and B12 from the Warp catalog as well. Warp has been my go-to music label since early 2000's.

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For musicians and devs, it's a good hint that Markov chains are "good enough" for most interesting music applications, ML/AI doesn't typically yield better results. Happy to see this on the front page!

I don't disagree with this observation, but I wanted to mention a counterpoint.

Eno's "Music for Airports" famously uses a system of multiple tape loops that produce sequences of different periods. As you listen, you can hear phrases that occur nearly together and then later, well-separated in time, as the periods of these loops go in and out of phase:

"One of the notes repeats every 23 1/2 seconds. It is in fact a long loop running around a series of tubular aluminum chairs in Conny Plank's studio. The next lowest loop repeats every 25 7/8 seconds or something like that. The third one every 29 15/16 seconds or something. What I mean is they all repeat in cycles that are called incommensurable — they are not likely to come back into sync again."

This interaction of periods will have long memory. (If the tape lengths are L and L+d, for small d, then the repeat time could easily be as long as L*(L/d), and even longer if d does not divide L evenly.) Thus, it is very different from what you get with a Markov chain.

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"Selected Ambient Works 85-92" is a quality product.

Probably my favorite album for programming and other work that require concentration. I still haven't encountered anything like it. I wish there was more.

You should check out: - Autechre - Square Pusher - Bonobo - Wisp - Brian Eno

In that order. All solid. If you want more you should checkout the Rephlex records current and previous artists list. All really solid ambient focused electronic music.

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"Selected Ambient Works 85-92" is a quality product.

Probably my favorite album for programming and other work that require concentration. I still haven't encountered anything like it. I wish there was more.

Gerald Donald's work (alias Dopplereffekt, Arpanet, Japanese Telecom, was part of Drexciya) works well for me for programming for years. Especially the Album "Inertial Frame" from Arpanet. Calabi Yau Space from Dopplereffekt as well (which was released on Aphex Twin's own label Rephlex)

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What is a good way to go about working with a new JS library? I only have used Python, Java, and C#. All the tutorials I find on tone.js just include the js code but not information on how to link the library. I would like to play around but getting the dev environment has stumped me.

there are many code playground sites[0] that could make the process less painful for you. essentially you will need to reference the library. you can do it locally, or reference the publicly available version (most libraries have a CDN hosted version).

you could also google for the playground site + library, because there may already be a playground setup (a project with a reference to the library already set) for that library somewhere. i.e.

[0] https://www.sitepoint.com/7-code-playgrounds/

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As an aside, if you like the track discussed in the article, check out Brian Eno's ambient work [1].

This track is a very obvious homage to Eno (and that's great).

Coincidentally, Eno and Richard James are both into generative music and I have little doubt they'll be taking a peek at this article.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TSJbT_NWUY

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