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Algorithmic Music

netbros — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:21:35 -0800

The principles of Harmonics were discovered by Pythagoras c.587-c.507 B.C. during travels to Egypt and throughout the ancient world. Hans Kayser made a profound philosophic study of harmonics in the 20th century. Algorithmic composition is the technique of using harmonic algorithms to create music. Drew Lesso has been creating algorithmic music since 1975. Samples like Crystal, Constellations, or Planet Earth demonstrate the math behind the music. Over the years, Lesso has collaborated with many other musicians and poets to create an airy, evolutionary legacy.

Why bubble when you can insert?

signal — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:35:13 -0800

Sorting Algorithm Animations.

Universal Algorithm of Experience

Fizz — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:57:17 -0800

Universal Algorithm of Experience: Rev. Luke Anthony Murphy has produced four books of graphs over the past five years: Relationships, Spiritual Matters, Money, and Problems. These graphs are attempts to give shape to the conditions that produce the internal environment of anxiety. Recently a group of these were presented in a show called Wilderness at Bernadette Salvage Fine Arts in conjunction with 7hours in Brooklyn. Rev. Luke Anthony Murphy is a painter and shows this work as well as his digitally produced drawings and photos in New York, Toronto, and Berlin. He currently lives in East Harlem, New York, and works for CBS.com.

Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness

phrontist — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:44:37 -0800

Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness

Modelling human memory, predicting forgetting

weston — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:03:31 -0800

Modelling Human Memory. Or, really, predicting the point of forgetting.

The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science

loquacious — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:19:50 -0800

The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science - an allegory told with iPods as Universal Machines.

Explaining the JPEG Algorithm

cgc373 — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:35:36 -0800

Algorithm. JPEG compression explained.

The air is inside "pyuu pyuu".

The Great Big Mulp — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:58:57 -0800

The Algorithm March: with Ninja and Everyone Together

"We were just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians, that's all."

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:25:09 -0800

Introduced to Western culture by the Beatles in their single Norwegian Wood, the sitar has featured prominently in North Indian classical music for centuries. Princeton-based computer scientist Ajay Kapur updates the instrument with his ESitar, an audio and video controller that uses gesture input (PDF) and machine learning algorithms to facilitate joining the computer with Ajay in his sitar performance. Undergraduate engineering students at the University of Pennsylvania work from the other direction, building RAVI-bot, an award-winning, self-playing robotic sitar (YouTube) programmed to generate music from classical Raga scales and melodies all on its own. For those in the Philadelphia area, be sure to check out a live performance of RAVI-bot at the local Klein Art Gallery.

It's alive!

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:16:11 -0800

Gary Stasiuk's beautiful Digital Creatures pulls the curtains on the kinematics of geometric objects, after which he plays with the mathematics and user interactivity of generative art and shows how to build the appearance of AI behaviors into Flash objects.

That sounds colorful...

loquacious — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 01:44:41 -0800

The John Whitney Music Box Variations are (currently) 17 nifty Flash sound/color objects based on the harmonics and algorithmic animation work of John Whitney, from the same fine fellow who brought us CoverPop and ColrPickr.

MapReduce: running large-scale computations in parallel

russilwvong — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:02:41 -0800

A look at an algorithm Google uses to run large-scale computations in parallel on thousands of cheap PCs: MapReduce. Via Joel on Software.

Ted Nugent has no idea what this shit means

DeepFriedTwinkies — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 00:17:28 -0800

Algorithmic composition is a method of composing music using basic alogrithm models to compose. Musicalgorithms is a program designed to allow composers a tool to explore algorithmic composition and lay people the opportunity to create music based on non-musical models.

More than junk science?

valerie — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:11:54 -0800

Quake to hit LA "by September 5," predicts a geophysicist at UCLA's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. Some skeptical, while others say it's not junk science.

Read a paragraph, guess my gender!

silusGROK — Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:07:49 -0800

The genger genie purports to guess the gender of an author by reading a sample of their writing. The program is based on an algorithm describe here, at nature.com. [Via Hit Or Miss.]

Algorithmic and Generative Art

Dean King — Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:40:47 -0800

"GoogleSynth uses the Google Image Search thingy to randomly grab two images as the 'input' and 'target' images for the algorithm. Once it has two images it applies the algorithm with the parameters set by the user and produces a new image based on them. The results vary wildly, often the output is a total mess, but it creates some cool looking stuff now and then (depending on your definition of 'cool')." (For Windows and Mac OSX.)