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Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track

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That's so awesome. It'd be nice to have the bird noises in the background as well though I guess this would be tricky if it's using MIDI to play the music. I guess I could find some ambient bird noise track and play it alongside...

It's not using midi, and yes, bird noises would be a perfect addition and totally easy to do with the Web Audio API. Great idea.

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There'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…

All of the suggestions here seem too distracting for me unfortunately.... :-/ These three bands work well for me when coding (or just "space ambient" on youtube): - AES Dana: https://ultimae.bandcamp.com/album/perimeters - Carbon Based Life Forms https://carbonbasedlifeforms.bandcamp.com/album/hydroponic-g... - Solar Fields: https://solarfields.bandcamp.com/album/movements-remastered

Good sounds :) Do you know Future Sound of London? Try their Lifeforms and Environments (I, II, III, ...) albums.

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Another recommendation: Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest

BOC’s The Campfire Headphase changed my life. Warp Records (record label that Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada are a part of) has built a really solid catalogue over the years

Plaid is another cool artist on Warp Records.

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That's so awesome. It'd be nice to have the bird noises in the background as well though I guess this would be tricky if it's using MIDI to play the music. I guess I could find some ambient bird noise track and play it alongside...

MIDI (only controls sounds, does not generate them) is widely used to trigger samples, so slip some samples of bird noises into your mix and trigger away.

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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…

> What I mean is they all repeat in cycles that are called incommensurable — they are not likely to come back into sync again. I remember a few years back there was some quick guide to visual design that I saw that recommended this. To provide what appeared to be randomness over repeating samples (or at least prevent easy pattern matching in the brain which is distracting), take three images that can of different pri…

I remember that article too! I used the same technique to make a convincing, non-duplicating flame-flicker algorithm for an led. 3 variables, all looping to different prime numbers and the sum of the 3 variables was the led intensity.

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Huh. Was bracing for something like "come to daddy" when I hit play. Didn't realize Aphex Twin did anything else.

Aphex Twin wrote one of my favorite songs of all time. Quiet. Melancholy. Absolutely gorgeous. Not the least bit noisy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AWIqXzvX-U

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>> The PS4 version supports PSVR Oh, fuck off. That's amazing. Colour me almost wanting to grab one. Wish it had a Vive port. I'm not a fan of Tetris. I like games that have a very distinct 'beginning and end of the level' feeling.

Check out Rez Infinite on Steam. Seems to support Oculus and Vive. ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/636450/Rez_Infinite/ )

Rex Infinite is the only game that I strongly prefer to play on a Vive over a Rift. The Rift is more comfortable, but the Vive has a higher peak brightness. If you crank the settings in the game, the difference between headsets is significant.

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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 th…

How do I tell what language to use with this package? From what I can tell it uses react. I have tried node, angular, and react but this installation page confounds me [0]. as far as I understand, I have been using either npm init, ng init, or create-react-app to initialize the directory for an example project. Then I do npm install tone inside of the directory I created. I have found this [1] playground for tone but…

its gonna be tricky to learn this way.. i'd recommend getting the basics down first.

i can recommend frontendmasters.com Brian Holt intro to web development. he's great .. i learned React from his courses :)

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