WolframTones: Generate a Composition

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Post by jasongullickson » Tue, May 04, 2010, 1:47 AM UTC

WolframTones: Generate a Composition
tones.wolfram.com

Re: WolframTones: Generate a Composition

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Post by jhuckestein » Tue, May 04, 2010, 2:01 AM UTC

Wow, 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_...

Re: WolframTones: Generate a Composition

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Post by omaranto » Tue, May 04, 2010, 2:30 AM UTC

I first heard about WolframTones on The website of the physicist turned mathematician John Baez. He composed a pretty decent album using WolframTunes called Treq Lila: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/music/treq_lila/

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Post by chengas123 » Tue, May 04, 2010, 2:33 AM UTC

I have to install a quicktime plugin? No thanks.

Re: WolframTones: Generate a Composition

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Post by elbenshira » Tue, May 04, 2010, 2:51 AM UTC

My ears are bleedinggggg. Seriously, none of the generated pieces made any musical sense.

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Post by fara » Tue, May 04, 2010, 3:03 AM UTC

Here is a simpler aproach in Python. http://blog.devartis.com/2009/09/25/musikalisches-wurfelspie...

Re: WolframTones: Generate a Composition

#7

Post by jblochjohnson » Tue, May 04, 2010, 3:05 AM UTC

Somewhere Raymond Scott is smiling

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Post by superk » Tue, May 04, 2010, 3:08 AM UTC

Watch 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.

Re: WolframTones: Generate a Composition

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Post by albertcardona » Tue, May 04, 2010, 3:15 AM UTC

jblochjohnson wrote: post #7

Somewhere Raymond Scott is smiling

"... was an American composer, band leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Scott

Re: WolframTones: Generate a Composition

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Post by jblochjohnson » Tue, May 04, 2010, 3:24 AM UTC

albertcardona wrote: post #9

jblochjohnson wrote: post #7

Somewhere Raymond Scott is smiling

"... was an American composer, band leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Scott

(also the creator of most music you remember from Warner Bros. cartoons, and inventor of the electronium, a totally analog machine that composed its own tunes, customizable by the "performer")