Comments on: Music by computers

Music by computers

Sully6 — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:12:07 -0800

The servers are alive with the sound of music. Wolfram Tones takes patterns found out in the computer universe and converts them to completely original musical scores (which still may sound familiar, weirdly enough). Visitors to the site can then tweak styles, instrumentation and pitch (Phyrigian hexatonic, anyone?). Compositions can be saved, e-mailed or downloaded to your cellphone. Via.

By: Rothko

Rothko — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:26:43 -0800

Very cool stuff. This could be hooked up to Ableton Live for some MIDI fun.

By: destro

destro — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:45:06 -0800

This is neat.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:01:23 -0800

This went over really well at MetaChat. Let's see how it fares here!

By: Rothko

Rothko — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:07:40 -0800

Wow, this is amazing. I'll be playing with this all weekend.

By: kozad

kozad — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:08:22 -0800

Not as fun as playing the piano, but fun.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:09:22 -0800

Hasn't this been posted before? Anyway, the damn thing didn't work on my PC, very irritating.

By: Tlogmer

Tlogmer — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:10:42 -0800

The hiphop generator is woefully ignorant of the range of rhythmic variations that actually make up hiphip. Other than that, cool.

By: Tlogmer

Tlogmer — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:10:54 -0800

Only works for me in IE, btw.

By: Sully6

Sully6 — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:24:51 -0800

I fiddled around with for awhile on my crap work PC with Firefox. No problems.

By: Tlogmer

Tlogmer — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:32:12 -0800

Its much more fun if you fuck with all the options.

By: Rothko

Rothko — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:48:05 -0800

Agreed.

By: Fezboy!

Fezboy! — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:51:56 -0800

Almost as fun as a circuit bending casio mod. This is what makes the interweb so great.

By: jann

jann — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:26:02 -0800

fun.

By: sergeant sandwich

sergeant sandwich — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:16:10 -0800

cool. but am i the only one who finds stephen wolfram's self-importance incredibly, unbearably obnoxious?