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WolframTones: Generate a Composition
- jhuckestein 16y agoWow, this made my day! The Latin and Rock/Pop categories sound like Monkey Island :D Amazing. Whoever didn't see it yet should watch Stephen Wolfram's talk about computation: http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_wolfram_computing_a_theory_of_everything.html http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_wolfram_computing_a_theory_...
- najirama 16y agoI tried to watch the video - but I could only make it to the point where he, in-all-seriousness, compared himself to Galileo...
- omaranto 16y agoI first heard about WolframTones on The website of the physicist turned mathematician John Baez. He composed a pretty decent album using WolframTunes called Treq Lila: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/music/treq_lila/ http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/music/treq_lila/
- chengas123 16y agoI have to install a quicktime plugin? No thanks.
- elbenshira 16y agoMy ears are bleedinggggg. Seriously, none of the generated pieces made any musical sense.
- techiferous 16y agoThey need to work on the rhythm.
- fara 16y agoHere is a simpler aproach in Python. http://blog.devartis.com/2009/09/25/musikalisches-wurfelspiel-hacking-music-composition/ http://blog.devartis.com/2009/09/25/musikalisches-wurfelspie...
- jblochjohnson 16y agoSomewhere Raymond Scott is smiling
- albertcardona 16y ago"... was an American composer, band leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Scott http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Scott
- jblochjohnson 16y ago(also the creator of most music you remember from Warner Bros. cartoons, and inventor of the electronium, a totally analog machine that composed its own tunes, customizable by the "performer")
- superk 16y agoWatch some of Ephidrena's old 4k demos on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6mynON6eQI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6mynON6eQI (If you have an Amiga lying around you can run the actual demo) That's multi channel digital audio (+ graphics) in under 4000 bytes. Wolfram sounds like the ROM off a synthesizer back in the early 90's.
- brunoc 16y agoIt seems to me that it's using Quicktime's midi engine. The focus is not on sound synthesis at all, it's on composition. When you download the composition it's sent to you as a midi file. With that you can easily assign better sounds than the ones provided by Quicktime. Mind you the Terms of Use are brutal and you're basically not supposed to do anything with that midi file anyways. Pretty much any creative use of it could be considered derivative works.
- qq66 16y agoIt would be pretty hard to prove that what you made was a derivative work, especially if you used Tor.
- shortformblog 16y agoI can't believe this predates WolframAlpha by like four years. This is a bizarre little idea begging to be re-discovered by a larger audience.
- shachaf 16y agoIf embedded MIDI isn't working, use javascript:window.location = document.getElementById('toneframe').contentWindow.document.getElementsByTagName('embed')[0].src To download the MIDI file directly.
- metamemetics 16y agoNow That's What I Call Music: http://tones.wolfram.com/xid/6785-514-9680-596-5232 http://tones.wolfram.com/xid/6785-514-9680-596-5232
- jey 16y agoI'm pretty sure that's just a real "psytrance" song at half-tempo.
- microtherion 16y agoThat song sounds like a Xerophonics law suit waiting to happen.
- bigiain 16y agoI wonder if Wolfram are going to claim copyright on all tunes that it's possible for this code to generate? ;-)
- Goladus 16y agoThis is pretty cool but I am a bit disappointed. The classical generator doesn't generate any recognizable genre of classical music that I've ever heard. I managed to get one that sounded like a phase-cycle piece without actually having any phasing. I'll probably keep an eye on it though.