ITT we're strangely attracted... - by mol
doctorfrog on 1/8/2006 at 05:34
Quote Posted by Printer's Devil
Pretty, but not as nice as that Nova episode with fractals and fractal-derived music*. That stuff could entrance you with the endless mircroscopic detail.
*It might have been some other PBS-related program.
If it's good enough, maybe there'll be a program that generates random (listenable) music. Entire bodies of work downloadable in teensy config files. Fractal MIDI.
Hell, why stop there, embed a chip that can spawn fractal melodies into an iPod-sized device.
Printer's Devil on 1/8/2006 at 06:02
Quote Posted by doctorfrog
If it's good enough, maybe there'll be a program that generates random (listenable) music. Entire bodies of work downloadable in teensy config files. Fractal MIDI.
Hell, why stop there, embed a chip that can spawn fractal melodies into an iPod-sized device.
Maybe someone will think you are clever, too.
demagogue on 2/8/2006 at 03:07
Oh god, I just lost a day playing with a Mandelbrot constructor, and now I see this...
In undergrad, one of the grad students in my program (philosophy of mind / cognitive science) wrote a dissertation on chaos theory and the brain, arguing that mental states/consiousness were like strange attractors. There was more trippy in that paper than Yellow Submarine.
Para?noid on 2/8/2006 at 03:26
Quote Posted by doctorfrog
If it's good enough, maybe there'll be a program that generates random (listenable) music. Entire bodies of work downloadable in teensy config files. Fractal MIDI.
Hell, why stop there, embed a chip that can spawn fractal melodies into an iPod-sized device.
(
http://tones.wolfram.com/generate/)
Generative music is fine as long as you have constraints
doctorfrog on 2/8/2006 at 06:11
That's actually kind of cute. Almost like it's making music for pinball shareware circa 1995. But yeah, all eagerness aside, it's probably going to continue to take humans to make decent tones, even seemingly simple ambient ones.
(
http://tones.wolfram.com/id/G1CVJ42adEhnI4q4dRqT4icWPpocLrCKphQueHx9a2OQPhIsf)
However, I can't help but wonder about the possibilities of generating music based on light, sound, and biometric input. Wear a sensor all day, have a machine spool out the soundtrack your life cut into world. (Not exactly a constrained idea though, eh?)
Para?noid on 2/8/2006 at 12:56
But people do that all the time in sound design and shit. Synthesisers controlled by brain waves, video camera input, e.t.c. The main thing about aleatory sequences is that they must be kept under wraps - the WolframTones thing, on a basic level, randomly selects a range of notes and a tempo to work with and doesn't deviate, so the results are somewhat straightforward; there's no variance in timbre or subtle expression- and most importantly there's no overarching structure; it just kind of floats along in the same vein.
