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Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

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Post by IsaacL »

pg wrote: post #33

I would be interested to see what happens when you do this to other types of music.

I did a university project in Clojure that fed Final Fantasy midi tracks into a Markov chain.

https://github.com/IsaacLewis/MidiMarkov

The crystal theme worked the best (it's basically some scales on the piano that go up and down).

With a first order Markov chain, the output was a random walk of notes going higher and lower. With a second order chain, the notes went up and down fairly steadily, but with scales peaking at odd points. With a third-order chain, you get close to the original song out.

(It's hard to explain in text, without knowing the correct music vocabulary, but I hope you get the idea).

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

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Post by brianwhitman »

Aissen wrote: post #103
pg wrote: post #33

I would be interested to see what happens when you do this to other types of music.

Just tried it on a music I liked, and wanted to create an "inifinite" version for some time: http://soundcloud.com/college/college-teenage-color (echonest track id: SOGUHNN12A8C13E7DD) It doesn't work as well as in gangnam style. I didn't take time to try to understand why. Either this is because echonest's analyzed mp3 isn't the same as mine. Or the function to compute distance between beats isn't generic enough.

Analyze your own, it'll be much better when you're doing synchronous stuff like this. Our canonical audio is likely very different in bitrate or time to start.

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

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Post by yuchi »

plamere wrote: post #94
yuchi wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

body { width: 730px; margin: 0 auto; } does the trick.

yep, that did it, thanks much yuchi!

Actually you should also correct some internal width that causes the whole page to overflow horizontally, causing a useless scrollbar.

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

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Post by dpark »

DanBC wrote: post #37
madrona wrote: post #31

Clever. I wonder if the illusion is broken if you actually speak Korean. I would definitely notice if someone chopped and reassembled random words in English.

I have trouble when I'm in American and I order water. I need to soften the t to a d, and drawl the word. I almost always understand Americans, apart from a few movies where they speak rapidly with background noise. Here's an example of what it's like: ( http://youtu.be/q-cAnFbEXY0 ) - it's almost recognisable, but not quite. So, mashing together sounds to create fake words can create something tantalisingly close to…

> I have trouble when I'm in American and I order water. I need to soften the t to a d, and drawl the word.

Where are you from? (i.e. What kind of accent do you have?) I find it strange that you'd have to enunciate less to be understood ordering water. If you pronounce "water" with a British accent (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/water#English), Americans should generally not have trouble understanding you.

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

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Post by mistercow »

zbyszek wrote: post #97
DrStalker wrote: post #74

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I'd guess each section is unique so there is no frequency analysis; the next section is picked at random instead of saying "Whoop whoop" is followed by "gundam style" 20% of the time, by "hey sexy lady" 50% of the time and by another "whoop whoop" 20% of the time.

Surely in a Markov process the next state is picked at random with some probability distribution, which may be uniform.

Yeah, thinking about it some more, that seems to be correct. It isn't what people usually think about when they think about Markov models, but it qualifies.

Actually, I think this kind of Markov model might be a better introduction than some of the others I've seen, since it's extremely simple to understand.

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

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Post by chimeracoder »

jhdevos wrote: post #105
chimeracoder wrote: post #93

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I'm not surprised. The English lyrics are, frankly, a little awkward. Nena's accent could be seen as endearing, but at the same time, it sounds a tad stilted, and nowhere near as fluid as the original German. It's a dance tune, and once you know what the song is about, it's just much more fun to hear it in the language that sounds more polished and lets you tune out the words so you can, well, dance. At the end of th…

You are not the only one who does this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI

Haha, thanks for that - now I know what I probably sound like whenever I sing along to 'Dragostea Din Tei'!

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

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Post by chimeracoder »

RyanMcGreal wrote: post #108
jhdevos wrote: post #105

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You are not the only one who does this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQt-h753jHI

Likewise, I'm sure we all recall Jimi Hendrix singing, "Excuse me while I kiss this guy."

I don't care what the liner notes say, I'm still convinced that Ian Curtis sings, 'I've been waiting for a guy to come and take me by the hand / Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man?'[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PldpBJEn4vQ

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

DanBC wrote: post #69
Sunlis wrote: post #49

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Why would you say that? The author said them self that this works best in Safari and Chrome. http://static.echonest.com/InfiniteGangnamStyle/faq.html

People used to build websites and tweak them for a particular browser. They'd use tags that only worked with one browser, or attributes that worked better with one browser than another. They'd then stick a little graphic on the page saying "This site works best in [Browser name]"; often with a download link. When Nux says "Seems like we're going back to "Built for Internet Explorer" days." I guess they're saying "It…

Well, these days, I write a website using web standards, it works great in Chrome, Firefox, and IE10, except for one CSS style that IE doesn't support, ruining it for IE10 users. And so I unintentionally end up creating something only usable in Chrome or Firefox.

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

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Post by DanBC »

dpark wrote: post #114
DanBC wrote: post #37

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I have trouble when I'm in American and I order water. I need to soften the t to a d, and drawl the word. I almost always understand Americans, apart from a few movies where they speak rapidly with background noise. Here's an example of what it's like: ( http://youtu.be/q-cAnFbEXY0 ) - it's almost recognisable, but not quite. So, mashing together sounds to create fake words can create something tantalisingly close to…

> I have trouble when I'm in American and I order water. I need to soften the t to a d, and drawl the word. Where are you from? (i.e. What kind of accent do you have?) I find it strange that you'd have to enunciate less to be understood ordering water. If you pronounce "water" with a British accent ( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/water#English ), Americans should generally not have trouble understanding you.

I'm English, with a reasonable English accent.

I'm not kidding, "water" is never understood, across a lot of California.

Re: Infinite Gangnam Style

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Post by dpark »

DanBC wrote: post #119
dpark wrote: post #114

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> I have trouble when I'm in American and I order water. I need to soften the t to a d, and drawl the word. Where are you from? (i.e. What kind of accent do you have?) I find it strange that you'd have to enunciate less to be understood ordering water. If you pronounce "water" with a British accent ( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/water#English ), Americans should generally not have trouble understanding you.

I'm English, with a reasonable English accent. I'm not kidding, "water" is never understood, across a lot of California.

Interesting. I've never seen that before, but I can't imagine why you'd make something like that up, so this must just be a gap in my experience.
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