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Show HN: Ever wondered what Conway's Game of Life sounds like?
Was a little obsessed with the idea of this small browser toy. Had to make it.
- vunderba 7mo agoNice job. There was another one about 6 months ago as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211868 And AlgoMotion did a pretty popular demonstration of musical cellular automata which I highly recommend giving a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2SjVwYNr54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2SjVwYNr54 A friend of mine just got a LinnStrument and I've been thinking about how cool it would make as a Conway Game of "Music" visualizer. https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument
- vova_hn2 7mo agoThanks! Very interesting approaches, especially AlgoMotion's. Hudson (author of the first link) doesn't really tell what algorithm exactly do they use.
- vunderba 7mo agoYeah I think there's a lot of room for experimentation in this area like locking the grid to musical modes (mixylodian, phyrgian), setting up intervals, etc.
- vova_hn2 7mo agoMyy experiment kinda supports every mode. For example, you can pick C major scale and it will have exactly the same notes as G Mixolydian or you can pick E Phrygian. Although, due to the chaotic nature of the simulation and also because the algorithm to pick notes that I chose, there is no tonal center, so strictly speaking we can't determine mode.
- vunderba 7mo agoyeah. One thing I've done in the past with experiments playing around with genetic algorithm derived music is that I would setup a recurrent tonic that would play every X beats to musically anchor to a signature and/or mode.