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The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

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Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

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Post by almostkorean »

jmfldn wrote: post #58

This 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…

In the same vein as this, David Bowie created an algorithm that generated lyrics and gave him ideas for songs https://www.vice.com/en/article/xygxpn/the-verbasizer-was-da...

Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

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Post by coldtea »

stinos wrote: post #96
sideshowb wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 Some sufficiently intoxicated people will dance to anything, though a good dj feels an obligation to make sure the thing being played is of good quality, regardless. As to…

Sufficiently intoxicated people will dance to anything I've heard this sentiment before and I always wonder whether it has been given enough thought or whether it's really true for you and the people you know. I mean, me and me friends have left more than one party because we'd rather stroll around the neighbourhood than endure the music the DJ was playing. Admittedly that happened more when not using drugs but it's…

>I mean, me and me friends have left more than one party because we'd rather stroll around the neighbourhood than endure the music the DJ was playing.

Was it because the music was bad though, or because you were opinionated against it? E.g. "me and my friends, we don't listen to 2-step garage".

>Admittedly that happened more when not using drugs but it's not like drugs suddenly just make you accept anything.

You'd be surprised...

Re: The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

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Post by yboris »

_joel wrote: post #152
bzzzt wrote: post #111

Earlier 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...

Fanzatia NYE93, people outside dancing to a car alarm (quite a famous video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rYXcmVSeBU

This is a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WFsIskJ05I (20 seconds - worth a watch)

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Post by technofiend »

If anyone is looking for raw data they could potentially cut down to a training set of data, Marc Rebillet aka "loop daddy" regularly improvises songs by incrementally creating and then overlaying small one to three bar loops. He doesn't specifically make acid / techno music but some of it is EDM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rebillet

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Post by api »

jmfldn wrote: post #58

This 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…

The question is whether the use of AI could be elevated above a crutch like autotune to actually being used as an instrument like a synthesizer. In other words: is it being used to amplify the ability of the musician or compensate for their lack of skill?

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Post by krrishd »

pretty cool, i’m tangentially reminded of https://jaipaul.bronze.ai/

> This version of Jasmine by Jai Paul is created using the BRONZE AI engine. On each listen, Bronze performs a unique and infinite playback of the piece.

Bronze is a new technology that allows music creators to utilise AI and machine learning as creative tools for composition and arrangement. Bronze is also an audio file format which will revolutionise music playback, enabling artists to release non-static, generative and augmented music.

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Post by pradn »

krrishd wrote: post #177

pretty cool, i’m tangentially reminded of https://jaipaul.bronze.ai/ > This version of Jasmine by Jai Paul is created using the BRONZE AI engine. On each listen, Bronze performs a unique and infinite playback of the piece. Bronze is a new technology that allows music creators to utilise AI and machine learning as creative tools for composition and arrangement. Bronze is also an audio file format which will revolution…

What a perfect song to pick for this experiment. It's extremely listenable. Jai Paul is a genius and my biggest problem with him is that he doesn't produce enough songs. His story is an interesting one, if you are interested. His laptop with his music was stolen and the music was leaked, and he disappeared from the scene for years afterward.

https://consequence.net/2013/04/report-jai-pauls-album-leake...

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