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

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Post by cubano »

texasbigdata wrote: post #61
printscreen wrote: post #58

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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

The dissonant intervals that were introduced by modern composers in the late 1800s and early 1900 by composers such as Rachmaninov, Revel, Debussy, and Varèse were hardly "pure".

The most amazing feelings often wash over me, in fact, while listening to these incredible composers...after a while the "atonal" notes will suddenly "snap" into place while my brain is somehow making sense of the music without my help.

It is truly a sublime moment when this magic occurs, and I'll often laugh out loud as the sudden transition from melodic confusion to understanding occurs.

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

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Post by Forgeties79 »

BrainVirus wrote: post #47
Forgeties79 wrote: post #46

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> What problem does this solve? Is that always the point?

Our society is currently suffocating in the endless torrent of information and pointless products. Just because you aren't interested in thinking about costs of things doesn't mean they don't have costs. So yes, I want to know what is the benefit. Any thinking predicated on the notion that we should just gouge ourselves on endless amount of stuff (services, products, information) without asking any questions is fault…

Ease off the throttle dude. I was genuinely asking from a creative/artistic POV. Forget I asked.

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

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Post by juris »

I really dig this; I always have a need for background music while working and the context switching is really bothersome! Maybe I can finally ditch the youtube music sub and just support your project.

Actually, I've been thinking to write my own for baroque-era music-- those rulesets are well-enclosed and have all kinds of tricks for escaping resolution. Perfect for long D&D sessions! :D

Do you have any communities / resources you go to for inspiration for your work?

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

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Post by juris »

printscreen wrote: post #80
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.

That's a cool idea. Something that was suggested to me with Flowful was to use some sort of body triggers, perhaps from facial recgonition through your device's camera, to determine when the user was becoming less focused. The music could then adapt to help them get back on track. So many cool possibilities.

XD yes! I want to jack my earbuds into the stock market: time and sales frequency denoting tempo and trade volume denoting dynamics; with a real time candle analyzer modulating between keys. Each company would be a different song!

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

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Post by printscreen »

juris wrote: post #83

I really dig this; I always have a need for background music while working and the context switching is really bothersome! Maybe I can finally ditch the youtube music sub and just support your project. Actually, I've been thinking to write my own for baroque-era music-- those rulesets are well-enclosed and have all kinds of tricks for escaping resolution. Perfect for long D&D sessions! :D Do you have any communities…

The fact that you'd consider making that switch is just awesome to me, so thanks! :)

For resources, theres a great site here as an intro to generative systems - https://teropa.info/loop/

And for communities, I have made a Discord for Flowful where I plan to post updates and how-its-made type stuff. The link is in the top right of the Flowful app, feel free to join!

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

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Post by capableweb »

printscreen wrote: post #54
degenerate wrote: post #40

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I prefer to see how "deep" a product will let me go (without hitting a regwall) before reading about it. After I've tested out the gatekeeping, I go back to the homepage to learn more about the product. But my personal use case aside -- if people want to see the homepage again for any reason, like contacting you, or linking to a friend -- you are blocking that ability.

You all made good points - I've removed the redirect. You should now be able to go back to the homepage. I was modelling it after Notion's homepage, where you just want to go back to your workspace when you go to notion.so, not the landing page. But I'll put some more thought into how it can be done less cruedly.

Notion does a lot of stuff poorly, I'm not sure why their patterns are being replicated elsewhere, just because the company itself is successful?

Anyhow, what you can do, is to have the landing page under /home for example, so when a visitor lands at /, you decide if to send them to /home (not logged in) or /player (logged in). The brand logo in the top links to /home instead.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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