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Evolutionary algorithms to create music (attached to libraries for sound generation and modification, drum beat, samples, etc) fronted by a reddit-like vote-up,

by ericb 19y ago

Evolutionary algorithms to create music (attached to libraries for sound generation and modification, drum beat, samples, etc) fronted by a reddit-like vote-up, vote-down system for the output of different algorithms. I'd try out different strategies for evolving things. I'd focus on electronica or something without vocals initially. Each "subreddit" would be focused around the evolved algorithms for a different theme (trance, house, etc.) Maybe there's something like this out there, but I'd play with it anyway...

byrneseyeview 19y ago
You should work with this guy: http://www.electricsheep.org/ http://www.electricsheep.org/
- spot 19y ago
  thanks :) i am looking for a collaborator for sonification. fyi i have monetized electric sheep: http://hifidreams.com http://hifidreams.com this is just taking off in the art world: it's now permanently hosted on moma.org and i just got the cover of Leonardo. if you sell your startup, you might even be able to afford it ;)
  - byrneseyeview 19y ago
    Whoa! Apologies for accidentally pimping you out without your permission. By the way, how much of it is evolved versus designed? Do you still seed new patterns? Are there any patterns that don't seem to evolve and have to be designed?
lsb 19y ago
there's David Cope's Experiments in Musical Intelligence --- http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/mp3page.htm http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/mp3page.htm --- where he's playing compositions that some AI wrote which was trained on Bach/Beethoven/et al. last june, i was toying around with the idea of learning a grammar of music on seeqpod, and generating pop songs, or something.
ericb 19y ago
When I get around to this (when I get to the don't-need-to-monetize-it stage), I'll probably look at hacking up the hacker news source to learn arc and borrow its front-end for voting/discussion. I can also use arc for the evolutionary algorithms, which should be sweet.

by ericb 19y ago

byrneseyeview 19y ago

You should work with this guy: http://www.electricsheep.org/ http://www.electricsheep.org/

spot 19y ago
thanks :) i am looking for a collaborator for sonification. fyi i have monetized electric sheep: http://hifidreams.com http://hifidreams.com this is just taking off in the art world: it's now permanently hosted on moma.org and i just got the cover of Leonardo. if you sell your startup, you might even be able to afford it ;)
- byrneseyeview 19y ago
  Whoa! Apologies for accidentally pimping you out without your permission. By the way, how much of it is evolved versus designed? Do you still seed new patterns? Are there any patterns that don't seem to evolve and have to be designed?

lsb 19y ago

there's David Cope's Experiments in Musical Intelligence --- http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/mp3page.htm http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/mp3page.htm --- where he's playing compositions that some AI wrote which was trained on Bach/Beethoven/et al. last june, i was toying around with the idea of learning a grammar of music on seeqpod, and generating pop songs, or something.

ericb 19y ago

When I get around to this (when I get to the don't-need-to-monetize-it stage), I'll probably look at hacking up the hacker news source to learn arc and borrow its front-end for voting/discussion. I can also use arc for the evolutionary algorithms, which should be sweet.