That's pretty impressive. Take it to the next level: pattern of patterns. Your level-1 patterns look like a sum of simple repetitions. A level-2 pattern would be a simple repetition of level-1 patterns. And so on.
The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music
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#52I may be opening a can-of-worms by asking this question.
But, what are the rights around using this algorithmically generated music? Is it free use? Who owns the copyright
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#53I may be opening a can-of-worms by asking this question. But, what are the rights around using this algorithmically generated music? Is it free use? Who owns the copyright
The button presser could make a claim on the copyright. I could see a legal challenge being filled as this not filling the requirement for being a creative work and hence not copyrightable.
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#54Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music
#55it's sounds like discovery channel's how it works show
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#56it's sounds like discovery channel's how it's made show
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#57This generates much better patterns than any other music web project I've tried. Awesome work. If you had no music experience, snuck into a club, impersonated a DJ, and just pressed play on this, I think even without touching it, no one would notice anything's amiss. If you messed around with it occasionally, you'd probably get hired back. (And that's a compliment to the app; definitely not a diss of acid techno.)
> snuck into a club, impersonated a DJ, and just pressed play on this, I think even without touching it, no one would notice anything's amiss. That very much depends on the club.
I mean I don't even know if people actually listen to acid or if it's a genre of music that online projects like this seem to latch on to. I don't recall (but I'm pretty insular) it being a thing anywhere.
Trance/dance music, sure. I guess acid is a subgenre?
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#58This is a great project, well done. Algorithmic music is fascinating to me, I feel like there's a lot of untapped potential in the concept particularly with more 'complex' genres where higher levels of composition and structural continuity are required. This tends to work much better with loop-based genres but I'd personally love to do a side project on something that could write melodies from some sort of generative grammar for example. A lot of these exist but the results are mixed very often.
For me the interesting part is not just in getting a computer to do all the work but using it as a compositional aide. You can think of it at writing music at a higher level of abstraction. Rather than writing a score you can write the rules of the score and use a stochastic process to spit out permutations for example. Eg imagine writing a program that could spit out Eric Satie-esque melodies.
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#59Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
> snuck into a club, impersonated a DJ, and just pressed play on this, I think even without touching it, no one would notice anything's amiss. That very much depends on the club.
I mean I don't even know if people actually listen to acid or if it's a genre of music that online projects like this seem to latch on to. I don't recall (but I'm pretty insular) it being a thing anywhere. Trance/dance music, sure. I guess acid is a subgenre?
I can confirm acid techno is alive and well in Berlin. Lots of good music coming out and DJs playing it.