JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music • Hacker News Board

Re: JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music

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Post by bananamerica » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 12:55 AM UTC

I want that as an Emacs minor mode!

Re: JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music

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Post by djohnston » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 12:57 AM UTC

jwalton wrote: post #37

smrk007 wrote: post #18

I want this as a VSCode or Vim extension!

Maybe something discordant when you type in a variable name that isn't defined? :D

wow if writing clean code improv'd a jazz piece i could definitely go back to coding 12 hours a day

Re: JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music

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Post by starlineventure » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 1:00 AM UTC

Try typing in "rain" or "wind"

Re: JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music

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Post by fredfjohnsen » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 1:09 AM UTC

jeremiecoullon wrote: post #2

this is great. The Kohl concert is hard to type at the right pace though :)

It's the Köln concert actually. The internet is pretty cool - you can look these things up when you don't know anything about them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Köln_Concert

Also, this JazzKeys post is worse than useless.

Re: JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music

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Post by ipiz0618 » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 1:12 AM UTC

Genius!! From what I can tell it seems to be random keys? Would be nice if a certain progression can be specified, but this is already awesome. Saving this as my new note taking tool.

Re: JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music

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Post by spacechild1 » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 1:22 AM UTC

ralmeida wrote: post #10

Nice touch that deleting letters descends chromatically. Letters typed appear unrelated to notes generated, you can type the same letter and it will keep generating different notes. Also, it seems it will never resolve to the root, no matter what you type :(

it makes you keep typing and be more productive. very clever, if you ask me.

Re: JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music

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Post by corytheboyd » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 1:23 AM UTC

I have a feature request BESIDES make it less random! When you delete all text with select all and then backspace/del it should make a huge loud combination of noises!

Re: JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music

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Post by pieq » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 2:18 AM UTC

modeless wrote: post #35

zakk wrote: post #5

Reminds me of Mikutap: https://aidn.jp/mikutap/

Also https://touchpianist.com/ Edit: Oh, and this one looks silly but generates surprisingly nice chord progressions that actually resolve sometimes: https://www.adultswim.com/etcetera/choir/

The choir is absolutely amazing! Thanks for sharing!

Re: JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music

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Post by jdpigeon » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 2:42 AM UTC

smrk007 wrote: post #18

I want this as a VSCode or Vim extension!

godamnit, another side project idea that I'll never find the time to finish!

Re: JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music

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Post by joan_kode » Tue, Jul 07, 2020, 3:38 AM UTC

This is really well done. I find the default "free form" mode is by far the most interesting, and it's more complex than a lot of the comments are implying here. It cycles between different patterns, and the pattern is changed by inserting a space or punctuation. You can easily verify this by typing an extremely long word without spaces: the pattern becomes apparent, even though it's always transposed up or down by 5 semitones when it repeats. This interval is well chosen - it effectively explores all possible transpositions of the pattern, while keeping the transitions harmonious. This also means that the tonality is constantly wandering, there is no overall key but only transient tonalities.

Different punctuation marks provide different collections of more-or-less conclusive chords. This might be the only place where tonality is hinted at, especially if you bash the comma, you can hear it's rooted in one key for the whole session. As far as I can tell those special characters are / ! ? 1 . ,

I haven't figured out if the patterns are generated on-the-fly or chosen from a predefined set, but they tend to have a nice melodic quality.

Someone also mentioned special words rain and wind, but there are more... very fun to explore. The concept is nice but the execution is especially interesting.