An implicit good quality in an app is having it make you feel like you have super powers. For a brief moment I could see myself in Ibiza, taking over a gig on short notice and making it work by using this app. Bravo to the author.
The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music
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#122Nice! I love acid music, such a simple formula with infinite variation. There's something so delicious about the wobble of a 303 bassline. I just want to mention Tin Man for those who are interested in acid. He writes, mostly, quite palatable (often mournful) tunes at house music tempo, but he has a good range and goes full banger at times. A real wizard with a heart for the genre. https://www.discogs.com/artist/3139…
His Album Neo Neo Acid is one of my all time favorites
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really into this type of music, but I'd notice, it sounds pretty average. It's a cool project and concept, but people in the know would notice.
I like this genre, but I don't find this generated music satisfying. My brain is anticipating some 'rule of three', which I don't feel it's following and I therefore feel disappointment. I'm expecting it to switch an established pattern up (more than it does) on the third repeat, just as I get used to it, and to have fractal-like layers of patterns, which I didn't observe.
> I like this genre, but I don't find this generated music satisfying.
Same. You could generate a bunch of random notes using realistic string instrument samples, and be just as far from Bach.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Sufficiently intoxicated people will dance to anything There's an urban legend saying Richard D James (Aphex Twin) threw a microphone in a kitchen blender at a concert and people were dancing to that sound...
I was once at a Plump DJs gig where the fire alarm went off and it took everyone a minute to realize it wasn't part of the tune. I've also heard of people dancing to a generator when the hardtek stopped. To be fair to the people concerned, both examples actually match the style of the music in question.
Reminds me of the hardcore raver Tyres from the sitcom Spaced (genius British comedy):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfSndZPynQk
Saying that I have had a similar thing with tracks that have police sirens in them when listening in the car, it takes a moment to realise it isn't an actual emergency vehicle.
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#125This generates much better patterns than any other music web project I've tried. Awesome work. If you had no music experience, 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. If you messed around with it occasionally, you'd probably get hired back. (And that's a compliment to the app; definitely not a diss of acid techno.)
no one would notice anything's amiss I doubt it. Perhaps you were lucky with the piece you listened to, but I checked it for 5 minutes and the off-beat things it generates are pretty much unheard of in this genre. Not that there's no off-beat produced by humans, but it doesn't sound anything like this. Simply because what the machine is doing here brakes the rhythm too much, making it harder to dance on, and after al…
I think you were unlucky, actually. I've been playing around with it on and off for a few hours now and sometimes it gets locked into the behaviour you describe, but for the most part it's very standard 4/4.
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#126This 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…
Yes, CoLD SToRAGE has a lot of nice links to tracks on his website: http://www.coldstorage.org.uk/
His bandcamp page has a lot of varied stuff, including his recent stab at improv ambient he knocked out in about 4 hours of work on this album: https://coldstorage.bandcamp.com/album/drift
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#127Amazing project, I am impressed!
I never listened to this style of music before. I honestly do not really like it. BUT: Listening to this music makes me focuse very hard on my work. I love it!
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#128Hands up if you were at an illegal rave in the 90's. m/
It's only illegal when they catch you!
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#129More gems on vitlings site: https://www.vitling.xyz/toys/autotracker/
I really liked this one: https://www.vitling.xyz/toys/triple_saw/ - very moody!
It's simple 2d canvas API. No shaders. That's amazing. https://github.com/vitling/triple-saw/blob/master/crt.js
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#130This 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…
Wholeheartedly agree using computers as a compositional aide is a fantastic thing, it's really quite satisfying to define some rules by which the program can modify the inputs (melodies, chords, drum patterns) and have it output interesting results.
I coded up some jungle music not long ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPan4gRSwZs&t=79s
I'm working on a procedure to modify the drum breaks in a conventional way, meaning I have to think less about keeping them interesting while live coding.