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The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

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Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

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Post by operatorius »

presentation wrote: post #5
lethologica wrote: post #3

I don't know anything about acid techno. Can someone comment on how accurate this is to the genre? I can't seem to get it to do much but make random beeps and boops, but maybe that's just the style of music?

This is pretty much how it sounds - the particular synthesizer and tweaking its parameters (resonance, filtering, and so on) is the main defining feature, the particular classic drum machine used typically goes along with it - but there’s a lot more variation you can do besides just slowly modulating it like this program does, as well as crossovers to other genres (using that squeaky synth sound in other genres of el…

Evol's mixtape is such an amazing work!

303 different tracks in 13:47

Link to full mixtape https://soundcloud.com/ideal-recordings/ideal-mixtape-eleven...

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Post by beforeolives »

This is great! I love the music that's coming out even though I usually don't listen to a lot of electronic music.

Is there a way to find out a bit more about the UI and what the different options are? It looks very foreign and I'm just randomly clicking on things.

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Post by jpcooper »

petecooper wrote: post #34
fergie wrote: post #13

Hands up if you were at an illegal rave in the 90's. m/

I highly recommend Kool London for 90s jungle, drum & bass, hardcore and related genres. http://koollondon.com/ Also on Tune In, Alexa etc.

Also worth following on Soundcloud for old school jungle, with lots of mixes from back in the day: https://soundcloud.com/ethereal94. The ones from "KOOL - 94.5FM" (straight out of Clapton) are well worth listening to.

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Post by Rastonbury »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #57
sneak wrote: post #46

Earlier 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?

Acid is probably the most trending subgenre of techno these days, just cuz you've never heard of it...

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Post by DiabloD3 »

tcpekin wrote: post #60
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/c/H%C3%96RBERLIN

They have a lot of DJs from this type of genre.

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Post by arximboldi »

I'm collaborating with this company working very much on this space: giving artists simple tools to make music that is non-linear and generative, where the artist expresses structure and composition, and the machine is the performer: https://bronze.ai

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Post by sideshowb »

jmfldn wrote: post #58

This 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…

As someone who writes mainly loop based genres I agree and have thought about much the same stack of abstractions. Acid techno is a great starting point as it's not known for complexity, being traditionally produced with a 909+303+303, devices that support only a 1 bar loop (a genre with origins that predate wide availability of digital audio workstations). But like yourself I'm interested in more complex genres.

One example of more general EDM levels of abstraction for me might go

1a. this tune needs to play with space (stereo/reverb) more 1b. we need some interesting background sounds

therefore

2. we need an interesting, wide background sound to start at bar 32 and end at 64

Dropping in something from a sample library to achieve that wouldn't satisfy me as every step of constructing that sound is following other rules of abstraction e.g. how should it fit with the existing tonal balance? with the existing rhythm? etc. But at the same time the process is 1% inspiration 99% perspiration - it's following unwritten almost-rules which would be fascinating to capture in an algorithm if I could. They wouldn't have to be completely general rules, just my own personal ones.

A related (light hearted) thing I wrote on EDM abstractions a while back https://omnisplore.wordpress.com/2017/11/25/kolmogorov-compl...

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Post by angus-prune »

hnick wrote: post #27
kolinko wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hands up if you were at an illegal rave in 2021! :)

They're probably all illegal in 2021 in countries with social distancing laws :o

Apart from industrial raves where gas masks are already part of the fashion

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Post by mekkkkkk »

This made me want to grind lap times in Wipeout 2097. The soundtrack and atmosphere in that game was really similar to this, and like nothing I'd heard or seen before at the time. It probably shaped my taste in so many ways. Fond memories!

EDIT: For those sharing the nostalgia, it turns out that the composer of the soundtrack, Cold Storage, remastered it and put it up on streaming services. It's a two part EP called SlipStream.

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