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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
Great article. Is an extended edition of aisatsana available for download anywhere, or is it only available through generative.fm?
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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…
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…
For the last 11 years I’ve been listening to autechre exclusively. Maybe that’s weird, but it’s all the sounds I need :)
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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.
For me I'd say Tycho is a bit more my bag when it comes to a tippy-tappy-loads-of-code session.
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…
The curator of Music For Programming [0] (which is fantastic, yes!) also put together the very silly collection of mixes called Businessfunk [1], which are also great coding music. And if you try Businessfunk and decide you have the stomach for it, I recommend following up with the Komputer Cast mixes by Com Truise. [0] https://musicforprogramming.net [1] http://datassette.net/businessfunk/ [2] http://comtruise.com/k…
Notably, Businessfunk mixes are made of ‘library music,’ i.e. stock musical clipart. Gotta say, I've lately heard a bunch of rather good music from libraries, e.g. the entire soundtrack of ‘IASIP’ (though that one is from “production music” libraries, i.e. more specialized for film, television and the like).
In 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 payo…
Given that the way the phrases evolve, and also repeat, is what tells the story, maybe a second layer of markov chain driving the phrase choices would help?
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
[1] https://hos.com
On a side note, saw a nice write-up celebrating the recent 25th anniversary of Selected Ambient Works Volume II: https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/23648 I feel like that album has a lot of potential for generative experiments. Admittedly, the album has an over-arching tone of eeriness throughout, which isn't something I want to listen to while I work most days. Maybe it would be inspiring to game developers wor…
As mentioned in that article, the eeriness comes from him creating the album through lucid dreaming, allegedly. Here's the original interview about that, its pretty fascinating: Interview with David Toop, March 1994, The Face Broaching this subject of dreams, he becomes animated and talks a long streak. "This album is really specific," he says, "because 70 percent of it is done from lucid dreaming... To have lucid dr…
Reminds me of the Infinite Jukebox: http://infinitejukebox.playlistmachinery.com/