30 years later, I still miss double muffled dolphin cellular automata ambient synth... https://www.muffled.dk/map.php
All of this guy's software and music seems so cool, and there's so little information on it. Can you share anything else?
Conway's Game of Life, but musical
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Re: Conway's Game of Life, but musical
#32I made a musical game of life not long ago if you want something to play with https://matthewbilyeu.com/tone-of-life
Re: Conway's Game of Life, but musical
#33interesting! a sort of digital windchimes.
do you expect that in a blind trial it could be distinguished from playing a statistically similar number of tones chosen randomly from the available cells?
Re: Conway's Game of Life, but musical
#34The soundtrack for Conway's Game of Life that I've always had in my head is John Carpenters' Wraith
Re: Conway's Game of Life, but musical
#35gonna have a panic attack at the twinkle twinkle "star" not being a half-note.
Beethoven "5" similarly affected.
Re: Conway's Game of Life, but musical
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What's obviously missing is a "fitness function" that can approximate the equivalent of human taste, so the final evolved forms just end up being widely random in terms of quality. Honestly for me this is a feature not a bug. If I want to hear music that matches my personal taste exactly I can just go to my instrument and play it. These tools are a way to taste more exotic forms and see if there's anything worth ca…
And that's perfectly fine. But when we conceptualize something like music in the form of evolutionary computation then it is important to be able to define a good metric for the fitness function otherwise you might as well just take X pieces of music, normalize them to the same key signature/tempo/etc., and then randomly mash them together. If you're just in the mood for something more exotic, I'm happy to go repeate…
> then it is important to be able to define a good metric for the fitness function
This product seems to have shipped successfully without one.
> If you're just in the mood for something more exotic, I'm happy to go repeatedly sit on my piano for a few hours and send you the final samples.
This feels needlessly condescending.
Re: Conway's Game of Life, but musical
#3730 years later, I still miss double muffled dolphin cellular automata ambient synth... https://www.muffled.dk/map.php
All of this guy's software and music seems so cool, and there's so little information on it. Can you share anything else?
Its been broken for 30 years, and yet its everlasting.