#algorithmiccomposition

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Rolf´s Infotalk 11 – “The World of Giorgio Sancristoforo part 1” is online now:

Musician, scientist, universal artist, creator of music software like “Berna 2”, “Bento”, “Ongaku” and more. Giorgio lets us have a look into his world of art, science and philosophy.

Timeline/Content of part 1:

00:00 introduction

01:50 “crossing borders” or “electronic music needs to find itself again”

08:00 do we need the spirit of the 1950s to go to unexplored territory in electronic music?

15:11 the music software “Ongaku” and “Bento” a whiff of unpredictability

20:24 the machine as a partner in the process of composing: AI

24:48 substituting sample libraries and plug-ins by AI

26:57 the composers contribution to generative music

29:02 the aesthetics of software interfaces

31:36 getting lost in your software instrument

34:41 use your ears to understand your instrument

[wlldvs-blog]

Tower of Babel: The beginning

Tower of Babel (ToB), as I’ve currently named it, is the project I’ve chosen to dedicate my summer to as part of my Sound Design MSc. Over the course of the programme I’ve been getting hooked on developing my own tools for creating sound, primarily in MaxMSP, and it feels fitting to have my year here culminate in a project exploring this.

Concept

ToB is the continuation of work I started in my second semester ‘Non-Realtime Systems’ module. The concept is a sound generation environment controlled through standard English rather than a programming language such as SonicPi or Supercollider. As such, it would be a fairly expressionistic approach to sound, rather than the highly controllable environments offered by DAWs and coding environments, and therefore it should be stressed that anything I develop here will be developed through the lens of my existing work and approaches to sound.

History

The author as wee boy

Ever since I was an edgy edgy teen, I’ve been making electronic music, and while the early results were fairly atrocious, over the more recent years, I’ve evolved a personal voice, dwelling mostly in the shadow of the mighty oak that is experimental ambient music. As such the sonic results of this project will most likely fit under this description - it’s quite a large and varied field, but it would be unreasonable of you, the reader to expect top 40 hits, or lounge jazz classics to be a likely outcome.

Tower of Babel v1.0 

The first iteration of the code exists as a relatively ugly/scrappy Max patch and is available to download and poke here, with some example outputs available in a separate blog post. It uses a 2013 semantic dictionary to drive the analysis and derives scale intervals from valence. The mapping of analysis to sound is quite simple, and there are some glitches and holes in the analysis engine, but it works as proof of concept.

Going Forward

My main tasks are, as I can see them:

Build a new/expand upon existing semantic dictionaries to produce something suitable for sound

Start building a lexicon of sound for the software to draw upon

Examine the cultural relevance of this project, with a view to curating the material I produce with this tool

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Symphony of a Return of Determination II 2/August/2018 The cover is created by multiply #neuralstyling a #randomwalk. The music is made with the following code (forked from an Overtone example): (definst voices [amp 8] (let [n 8 src (* amp (dust (repeat n 2))) del (comb-l src 0.1 (repeatedly n #(+ (rand 0.004) 0.003)) 4)] (splay del :spread 0.8))) (doseq [n [0.01 0.6 1 2 4 8 32]] (voices n)) This code is licensed CC-0 (public domain). #audiosynthesis #clojure #clojureovertone #overtone #audio #audioart #originalart #algorithmicart #digitalart #newmedia #artistsofinstagram #artistsoftumblr #modernart #neuralart #music #avantgarde #experimental #experimentalart #computerart #art2018 #artstudent #algorithmiccomposition #synthesis #supercollider #sc3 #supercollider3 #creativecommons #publicdomain #freshair #grunge #pale #empowerment

[deauditievedienst]

I’ve been collaborating with Matthias Oostrik and Suzanne Dikker on the project Harmonic Dissonance. Movement and brain waves are sonified in realtime over a 5.1 (heptagon) speaker setup. Movement is tracked and spatialised in correlation to the position of the participant. This video is a short excerpt of the first try out with an audience. Very happy with the results so far, but a lot of work needs to be done to make it more clear how movement correlates to sound for the participants. Nonetheless the experience was a lot of fun! All sounds created in Ableton 10 and connected to OpenFrameWorks via OSC in MaxforLive.

[burlveneer-music]

William Fields - FieldsOS - 24 hour-long algorithmic pieces

FieldsOS was broadcast as a weekly radio show on Resonance Extra during the first half of 2019. Each episode is focused on a different genre, algorithm, or approach. FieldsOS is 100% algorithmic music. The probabilities, conditions, and constraints were configured in advance. The output was recorded and this is the result. No curation or editing was done. Thank you to Peter Lanceley and everyone at Resonance Extra for the opportunity. Image “Calabi-Yau” by Lunch is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calabi-Yau.png

William Fields (b.1977) is an artist, musician, and composer from the Philadelphia area whose work explores algorithmiccomposition and audio-visual correspondence. His music has been released on labels such as Conditional, New York Haunted, Audiobulb, and NOREMIXES. 

[phungthaihy]

Algorithmic composition: A New Era For Music. http://ehelpdesk.tk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/logo-header.png [ad_1] What is algorithmic composition ... #abletonlive #algorithmiccomposition #bluesguitar #classicalmusic #dj #drums #electronicmusic #fingerstyleguitar #flstudio #generativemusic #guitar #harmonica #keyboardinstrument #logicprox #music #musiccomposition #musicmixing #musicproduction #musictheory #piano #singing #songwriting

[lesindesmusic]

DROPLET INFECTION // Make Noise ErbeVerb // 4ms VCA Matrix // Eowave Fl...

[algorithmiccomposer]

This patch is an automatic breakbeat generator. It loads a sample, cuts it into 8 equal parts and plays random 3 + 3 + 2 sections from this sample: e.g. parts 234, 678, 56, or 456, 123, 78 etc Read the tutorial and download the patch here http://algorithmiccomposer.com/2013/01/automatic-breakbeat-generator.html

[annespalterstudios]

@springbreakartshow @ambrekelly @andrewgoriandfriends #springbreakartshow #nyc #newmedia #sunset #algorithmiccomposition. Test clip... East River at Sunset

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(there´s even a video about it:

Epiloque

And here it ends. These are the last sentences of my trilogy about making generative music with modular synths.

And these are the last few minutes of more than three years of working about this topic, of writing, of trying out patch techniques, of making graphics and all kinds of illustrations ... and of making hundreds and hundreds of video clips and embed them in these books.

If you have followed me through all three volumes of “A Systematic Introduction To Making Generative Music With Modular Synths” I´d like to say:

“Thank you for following me! Thank you very much indeed for reading and practising and working yourself through legions of pages and exercises. Thank you for following me through 1095 days (it ended up being even a few more), for telling me your opinion in emails, in your comments on social media and in Skype calls – and of course thank you for buying my e-books and for giving me all kind of support.”

You have worked yourself through a lot of stuff, really a lot, and you can rightly call yourself a master of generative music now.

Where should you – or we - go from here? How should you - or we – continue? What are the nearest related subject areas?

Well, it´s not only modular synths we can generate music with. Producing generative music by coding is one of these neighbouring fields of creativity.

And being a neighbour to both (modular and program code) there is the wide field of algorithmic composition.

And looking into another direction we see a group of “generative music generating” techniques marching under the flag of “Artificial Intelligence”.

And understanding yourself as a part of the generative system you may even want to explore the world of music and psychology, of how musical phenomena are experienced.

Alright then! There´s a lot to do, there are a lot of journeys waiting to be made.

Enjoy your day!

Rolf Kasten

[deauditievedienst]

Prototyping with flowtools by @matthiasoostrik for Harmonic Dissonance #motiontracking #openframeworks #interactive #opticalflow #algorithmiccomposition

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“(trem :freq 100 :depth 10000 :rate 100)” Trying to synthesize a helicopter :D The code: (definst trem [freq 440 depth 10 rate 6 ] (* 0.3 (saw (max 10 (+ freq (* depth (sin-osc:ar rate))))))) (trem :freq 100 :depth 10000 :rate 100) Licensed CC-0 (public domain). #audiosynthesis #supercollider #overtone #clojure #toystory2 #toystory #toystorygame #toystory2game #helicopter #computerart #digitalart #newmedia #newmediaart #avantgarde #avantgardeart #art #art2018 #artistsontumblr #artistsoninstagram #audioart #modernart #contemporaryart #noiseart #noise #originalwork #myart #youngart #smallart #algorithmicart #algorithmiccomposition