Reminds me of the Infinite Jukebox: http://infinitejukebox.playlistmachinery.com/
Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track
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#142I always liked Burial for programming.
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#143Huh. Was bracing for something like "come to daddy" when I hit play. Didn't realize Aphex Twin did anything else.
Mentally I have a third group for his music, in addition to the two you mentioned, which is full of fast paced melodic music like 'xtal' that doesn't have any of the harsh beats of his music like Come to Daddy.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rez is brilliant and I remember my dreamcast fondly. This page seems to say that his music wasn't used in the released version. https://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/10/k-project-rez-prototype/
Okay, that seems to directly contradict my actual memory of the game! I'm absolutely going to have to confirm that. I distinctly remember reading 'Richard D. James', and recognizing the name, as I was a massive fan of 'Drukqz'. Strange how memory affects us. EDIT: And whom lucky enough to own one does not remember the Dreamcast fondly? ;) Crazy Taxi, Quake III, Skies of Arcadia, Ecco, THPS2 - I'd argue the ratio of q…
I recall there's a Dreamcast disc image floating around somewhere with a different music selection. Depending on where you got your copy of Rez, who knows what you've got. :)
I just pulled my dreamcast out to play some of the games with my son. It's still a great system. There are some low quality games, but it definitely feels like you have to seek them out; as opposed to the shovel ware feeling I get on the PS1/PS2. Looking at the released game list though, I feel like some of these titles were probably good at the time, but won't hold up; but many of them are still as good as they were. VGA output is pretty nice too.
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#145Although I like the result, I find the track less soothing without the birds in the background. There's probably a way to generate those as well though, I suppose.
Went on youtube and found a "10 hour" bird and forest noises video, works pretty well
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#146There's a nice website with a clean UI called 'Music for programming', put together by a guy who curates playlists designed to compliment anyone who wants to buckle down and do deep focus creative work for a while. I've been through each of his 53 playlists several times. 'Asiatsana' is one track in one playlist, but the music overall is very much in keeping with the mood and tone of Asiatsana. https://musicforprogra…
It's really sad to see music that I grew up on and had many life experiences around get simply reduced to "music for ____".
A lot of the music I love from my younger years, I can still listen to either actively for enjoyment or passively for concentration. It's entirely up to me.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 l…
There was an interview with Eno in Wired in 1995 [1] that i still think about sometimes. Amongst other things, he talks about lifting himself to the next meta-level of composition, where he doesn't write music, he writes rules for a box which makes music: Q: If I could give you a black box that could do anything, what would you have it do? A: I would love to have a box onto which I could offload choice making. A thin…
This should be doable? You could feed your entire catalogue into the machine, and have it start generating music. For every pass, you could listen to the created piece and tell it "I would not make anything like element X, because of [specific reason], so take that out."
Enough of these passes and detailed removal of elements you wouldn't create, and you should get closer and closer to a machine that would be your musical clone.
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#148In knowing the original track very well, I find this version fascinating but also frustrating to listen to. It really emphasizes for me the importance of well thought out note placement and timing and the connection throughout, especially in minimalist pieces. This might sound pompous, but it's like the original seeks to tell a story, but this version is like pulling words and phrases out of a hat; the emotional payoff doesn't exist for me. I hope that's not discouraging in any way, as I think this type of experimentation should be celebrated and the writeup is excellent. I'm only speaking of what effect this has on me tied to this particular piece of music.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let me know how that goes! I know as a songwriter it'd be a great tool to have on hand.
What you describe is exactly what I'm building - https://songsling.io Didn't want to explicitly promote it here in the thread, but I'm building it to serve as a general music-content engine for artists (also for my own music, let's be honest) that will let you upload composition parts and the player will put them together on the fly. It already has interactivity built in where you can serve a different version of a t…
One use-case that immediately jumped to mind for an API plugin is integration with popular games for game streamers to use. Something that detects that you're in the middle of a gunfight vs just chilling in the lobby, and selects/modifies the music appropriately.
Some video games do this automatically with their in-game music, but not all, and many streamers prefer using other music to avoid it getting stale.
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#150Is there a plan for an iOS app anytime soon?