Music by computers
December 9, 2005 10:12 AM   Subscribe

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.
posted by Sully6 (14 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Very cool stuff. This could be hooked up to Ableton Live for some MIDI fun.
posted by Rothko at 10:26 AM on December 9, 2005


This is neat.
posted by destro at 10:45 AM on December 9, 2005


This went over really well at MetaChat. Let's see how it fares here!
posted by Wolfdog at 11:01 AM on December 9, 2005


Wow, this is amazing. I'll be playing with this all weekend.
posted by Rothko at 11:07 AM on December 9, 2005


Not as fun as playing the piano, but fun.
posted by kozad at 11:08 AM on December 9, 2005


Hasn't this been posted before?

Anyway, the damn thing didn't work on my PC, very irritating.
posted by delmoi at 11:09 AM on December 9, 2005


The hiphop generator is woefully ignorant of the range of rhythmic variations that actually make up hiphip. Other than that, cool.
posted by Tlogmer at 11:10 AM on December 9, 2005


Only works for me in IE, btw.
posted by Tlogmer at 11:10 AM on December 9, 2005


I fiddled around with for awhile on my crap work PC with Firefox. No problems.
posted by Sully6 at 11:24 AM on December 9, 2005




Agreed.
posted by Rothko at 11:48 AM on December 9, 2005


Almost as fun as a circuit bending casio mod. This is what makes the interweb so great.
posted by Fezboy! at 11:51 AM on December 9, 2005


fun.
posted by jann at 1:26 PM on December 9, 2005


cool. but am i the only one who finds stephen wolfram's self-importance incredibly, unbearably obnoxious?
posted by sergeant sandwich at 7:16 PM on December 9, 2005


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