My ears are bleedinggggg. Seriously, none of the generated pieces made any musical sense.
They need to work on the rhythm.
WolframTones: Generate a Composition
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Re: WolframTones: Generate a Composition
#12I can't believe this predates WolframAlpha by like four years. This is a bizarre little idea begging to be re-discovered by a larger audience.
Re: WolframTones: Generate a Composition
#13Watch some of Ephidrena's old 4k demos on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6mynON6eQI (If you have an Amiga lying around you can run the actual demo) That's multi channel digital audio (+ graphics) in under 4000 bytes. Wolfram sounds like the ROM off a synthesizer back in the early 90's.
It seems to me that it's using Quicktime's midi engine. The focus is not on sound synthesis at all, it's on composition. When you download the composition it's sent to you as a midi file. With that you can easily assign better sounds than the ones provided by Quicktime.
Mind you the Terms of Use are brutal and you're basically not supposed to do anything with that midi file anyways. Pretty much any creative use of it could be considered derivative works.
Re: WolframTones: Generate a Composition
#14If embedded MIDI isn't working, use
javascript:window.location = document.getElementById('toneframe').contentWindow.document.getElementsByTagName('embed')[0].src
Re: WolframTones: Generate a Composition
#15Watch some of Ephidrena's old 4k demos on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6mynON6eQI (If you have an Amiga lying around you can run the actual demo) That's multi channel digital audio (+ graphics) in under 4000 bytes. Wolfram sounds like the ROM off a synthesizer back in the early 90's.
It seems to me that it's using Quicktime's midi engine. The focus is not on sound synthesis at all, it's on composition. When you download the composition it's sent to you as a midi file. With that you can easily assign better sounds than the ones provided by Quicktime. Mind you the Terms of Use are brutal and you're basically not supposed to do anything with that midi file anyways. Pretty much any creative use of it…
It would be pretty hard to prove that what you made was a derivative work, especially if you used Tor.
Re: WolframTones: Generate a Composition
#16Now That's What I Call Music:
http://tones.wolfram.com/xid/6785-514-9680-596-5232
Re: WolframTones: Generate a Composition
#17Wow, this made my day! The Latin and Rock/Pop categories sound like Monkey Island :D Amazing. Whoever didn't see it yet should watch Stephen Wolfram's talk about computation: http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_wolfram_computing_a_theory_...
I tried to watch the video - but I could only make it to the point where he, in-all-seriousness, compared himself to Galileo...
Re: WolframTones: Generate a Composition
#18Now That's What I Call Music: http://tones.wolfram.com/xid/6785-514-9680-596-5232
I'm pretty sure that's just a real "psytrance" song at half-tempo.
Re: WolframTones: Generate a Composition
#19I wonder if Wolfram are going to claim copyright on all tunes that it's possible for this code to generate? ;-)