Comments on: Generative Art

Generative Art

vacapinta — Sat, 27 Jul 2002 02:27:28 -0800

Generative Art The musician Jem Finer (formerly of The Pogues) has created a musical composition, The LongPlayer, that will play, without repetition, for a thousand years (made with SuperCollider). It is currently playing live at a London lighthouse. The Dream House is another example of a generative art piece, in this case one that was set to run for eight years. These are both examples of Generative Art, Art generated by rules. The GA community is an active one. Also, see Virangelic - a random composition generator. Art generated by Artifical Life swarms. NewZoid - A false News Headline generator. And, N-Gen - computer generated Graphic Design.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Sat, 27 Jul 2002 02:29:50 -0800

musical at length theme night emerging

By: skylar

skylar — Sat, 27 Jul 2002 02:30:14 -0800

Longplayer first came to the public's attention in January 2000 when it was the soundtrack for the Rest Zone, an area of the much-maligned Millennium Dome. The Rest Zone was one of the most interesting and conceptual zones in the Dome, unique because it had nothing in it whatsoever. The zone was like a womb-like chill-out room, with Finer's remarkable chiming music (made mostly from samples of Tibetan singing bowls) playing while gentle ripples of light crossed the ceiling. Beautiful.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Sat, 27 Jul 2002 02:31:39 -0800

well, and then some..

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Sat, 27 Jul 2002 02:42:46 -0800

And, of course, the strange generative architecture of Celestino Soddu.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Sat, 27 Jul 2002 07:02:57 -0800

Coming soon--the strange generative architecture of dong_resin... Be sure to wash hands before leaving restroom.

By: Gregoire

Gregoire — Sat, 27 Jul 2002 08:07:14 -0800

Great links... I was particularly taken with Viragelic. And then there's the SSEYO Koan player, which seemed quite promising (to me, at least) back in, erm, '96? '97? Generative music netscape plugin. Vastly superior to cheesy MIDI. But it just never caught on. I'm still looking for the generative music piece that extends Shriekback's Ceolocanth indefinitely.

By: kliuless

kliuless — Sat, 27 Jul 2002 12:02:03 -0800

ars technica recently had this bit about the Continuator. it's "designed to learn a particular musician's style and then produce new musical phrases in that same style."

By: shortfuse

shortfuse — Sat, 27 Jul 2002 12:55:51 -0800

There's a book on generative visual design in Java, Director and NATO. Good read especially if you like the artists featured, like Golan Levin or lia, and want to hear their take on things.

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Sat, 27 Jul 2002 15:33:47 -0800

I was particularly taken with Viragelic. Yeah, I've been playing with it for a while (its a screensaver too). Nice use of sound-loops (including human voices). I think the max is 3-4 layers. Pick 'New Song' until you get something interesting.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Sat, 27 Jul 2002 19:19:36 -0800

This is really such a cool set of links that you and your commentators have given us, vacapinta. I'll be coming back here often.

By: scribblative

scribblative — Sat, 27 Jul 2002 23:47:48 -0800

thanks for the amazing links, all - it's stuff like this that keeps me glued to Metafilter.