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Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser

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Post by texasbigdata »

printscreen wrote: post #58
green-eclipse wrote: post #57

Absolutely love this concept. One issue I'm having after listening for a while to a variety of the channels is that the music is all pretty "sad." I don't know enough about music theory to give you more detail than that, but is there a way you can add more upbeat songs, to get my mood up, energy up, motivation kicking in? Listening to these, I kind of want to take a nap.

Yeah I have heard this before actually. The next few tracks that I make will be in a Major key, which should help!

After that pure dissonance! Rachmaninov in Paris

Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser

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Post by loaf_eye »

jimmySixDOF wrote: post #11

Call me old fashioned but I prefer chill music that was hand crafted by a DJ blending samples from wide influences as in the Buddha Bar or Cafe Del Mar collections. I am afraid all these LoFi channels and Spotify Focus playlists songs are in reality just procedurally generated by them under some made up lables so in reality no artists are actually paid for the stream and the money (what little there is anymore) goes…

> I am afraid all these LoFi channels and Spotify Focus playlists songs are in reality just procedurally generated

I don't think this is true, there's some lo-fi covers on Spotify that, I assume, have been composed manually like any other, e.g. tracks like https://open.spotify.com/track/32VdL9yw37qMRhvDQBicOJ?si=NWj... https://open.spotify.com/track/1dTWwTiKKxf0WSmFIV34Zf?si=Azk...

Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser

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Post by fredley »

Love this. A project I've had in mind for a while but realistically will never get around to building is an ambient/coding music generator that's hooked up to a metric, e.g. your project's latency, autoscale size, error rate, potentially controlling different instruments.

It would be fun to be able to subconsciously monitor your system without staring at graphs.

Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser

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Post by fonix »

fredley wrote: post #63

Love this. A project I've had in mind for a while but realistically will never get around to building is an ambient/coding music generator that's hooked up to a metric, e.g. your project's latency, autoscale size, error rate, potentially controlling different instruments. It would be fun to be able to subconsciously monitor your system without staring at graphs.

Sounds great until you start hearing boss-level music!

Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser

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Post by fredley »

fonix wrote: post #65
fredley wrote: post #63

Love this. A project I've had in mind for a while but realistically will never get around to building is an ambient/coding music generator that's hooked up to a metric, e.g. your project's latency, autoscale size, error rate, potentially controlling different instruments. It would be fun to be able to subconsciously monitor your system without staring at graphs.

Sounds great until you start hearing boss-level music!

Then it starts sounding even better!

Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser

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Post by phailhaus »

fredley wrote: post #63

Love this. A project I've had in mind for a while but realistically will never get around to building is an ambient/coding music generator that's hooked up to a metric, e.g. your project's latency, autoscale size, error rate, potentially controlling different instruments. It would be fun to be able to subconsciously monitor your system without staring at graphs.

A long time ago, a friend mentioned this exact same idea! The analogy he used was how steam engine operators became so familiar with their machines that they could tell what was going on just by listening. I'm not sure if we can really do the same with services, but it's a fun thought experiment.

Re: Show HN: I made some ambient music generators that run in your browser

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Post by EdwardCoffin »

fredley wrote: post #63

Love this. A project I've had in mind for a while but realistically will never get around to building is an ambient/coding music generator that's hooked up to a metric, e.g. your project's latency, autoscale size, error rate, potentially controlling different instruments. It would be fun to be able to subconsciously monitor your system without staring at graphs.

Hansen and Rubin did something like this in 2001 [1]. I have some audio samples of their program's product from monitoring the Lucent site at 6 AM, noon, and 2:30 PM - decidedly different sounds at each time.

Edit: The page on Hansen's website about this project (Listening Post) is available in archive.org, but without any audio samples alas [2]

[1] http://legacy.spa.aalto.fi/icad2001/proceedings/papers/hanse...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20020414095256fw_/http://www.ear...

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