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Automatic Music Hackathon

51 points by marmor 13y ago

marmor 13y ago
Some really interesting talks on algorithmic music composition this Friday at 7:30 at Etsy Labs in Brooklyn, NYC.
virtualzen 13y ago
This is so awesome. Is there anything like this in San Francisco?
- dorkrawk 13y ago
  I know there was an SF Music Hack Day: http://sf.musichackday.org/2013/index.php?page=Main+page http://sf.musichackday.org/2013/index.php?page=Main+page
brianwhitman 13y ago
this is going to be a great event, I'm speaking at it too, presenting my old "A Singular Christmas" from 2004 (nee Eigenradio) http://notes.variogr.am/post/262976984/a-singular-christmas-2004 http://notes.variogr.am/post/262976984/a-singular-christmas-...
- thebiglebrewski 13y ago
  Wow, much respect Mr. Echo Nest!
- __lucas 13y ago
  will mr. marmor be playing anything from his hit lithuanian LP "Silence In a Sweater"?
  - marmor 13y ago
    Absolutely! Here's a recording for reference: http://bit.ly/1kbRpkX http://bit.ly/1kbRpkX
  - grmnygrmny 13y ago
    I'm still waiting on the limited edition multicolour vinyl release.
mihow 13y ago
The list of talks is worth exploring. I am glad the term "Automatic Music" is open for interpretation.
chimeracoder 13y ago
This hackathon has always been one of my favorites, because it draws both people with an engineering background and people with a music background, and everything in between. I like to describe it as the 'hackathon quivalent of a garage band jam session'
bennrush 13y ago
This HACKATHON Event is a first for me. Kristin Olsen, who plays baritone for my Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra, informed me of the event and connected me to Jonathan Marmor. I have used simple effective Graphic Scores for various ensembles since the mid-70's as well as the use of playing cards, dice, numerical processes etc. I also compose using standard notation. For Saturday, a sax quartet version of my orchestra will be there to collaborate on Automatic Music. That evening, we will perform a collaborative piece from the Hackathon and a new work in our own repertoire entitled SWITCHBOARD. I composed this piece as a platform for open improvisation. It is based on the initials of each Musician performing using the alphabet to designate duration. We will also perform Terry Riley's IN C for which anyone who can play the composition is MORE than welcome to join in. Hearing Forward!
zmitri 13y ago
Unfortunately I can't make this, but here's an automatic music hack I built at music hack day this year in Toronto: http://tap-pad.herokuapp.com http://tap-pad.herokuapp.com It uses cellular automatons to generate music and is completely open source: https://github.com/dmitric/tap-pad-web https://github.com/dmitric/tap-pad-web there's even an iOS version: https://github.com/dmitric/tap-pad-ios https://github.com/dmitric/tap-pad-ios If someone there wants to play around with the idea I'd be honored!
- hackula1 13y ago
  Love it. I had a lot of fun playing around with it.
lobo_tuerto 13y ago
Anyone have any good resources or recommendations for getting into this area? (automatic-algorithmic music generation)
- treetrouble 13y ago
  There are a couple of subreddits geared towards algorithmic music (http://www.reddit.com/r/algorithmicmusic http://www.reddit.com/r/algorithmicmusic and the more general http://www.reddit.com/r/musicprogramming http://www.reddit.com/r/musicprogramming). Definitely cross/post any other resources you find
thorkell 13y ago
Ahh, looking forward to this. I'll be talking about a thing I made for self-referential composition: https://github.com/tkell/theultimatemachine https://github.com/tkell/theultimatemachine
sidmitra 13y ago
This might be relevant for people: A language for live programming music in clojure: http://mad.emotionull.com/ http://mad.emotionull.com/
mpd123 13y ago
Go JDog go

51 points by marmor 13y ago

marmor 13y ago

Some really interesting talks on algorithmic music composition this Friday at 7:30 at Etsy Labs in Brooklyn, NYC.

virtualzen 13y ago

This is so awesome. Is there anything like this in San Francisco?

dorkrawk 13y ago
I know there was an SF Music Hack Day: http://sf.musichackday.org/2013/index.php?page=Main+page http://sf.musichackday.org/2013/index.php?page=Main+page

brianwhitman 13y ago

this is going to be a great event, I'm speaking at it too, presenting my old "A Singular Christmas" from 2004 (nee Eigenradio) http://notes.variogr.am/post/262976984/a-singular-christmas-2004 http://notes.variogr.am/post/262976984/a-singular-christmas-...

thebiglebrewski 13y ago
Wow, much respect Mr. Echo Nest!
__lucas 13y ago
will mr. marmor be playing anything from his hit lithuanian LP "Silence In a Sweater"?
- marmor 13y ago
  Absolutely! Here's a recording for reference: http://bit.ly/1kbRpkX http://bit.ly/1kbRpkX
- grmnygrmny 13y ago
  I'm still waiting on the limited edition multicolour vinyl release.

mihow 13y ago

The list of talks is worth exploring. I am glad the term "Automatic Music" is open for interpretation.

chimeracoder 13y ago

This hackathon has always been one of my favorites, because it draws both people with an engineering background and people with a music background, and everything in between. I like to describe it as the 'hackathon quivalent of a garage band jam session'

bennrush 13y ago

This HACKATHON Event is a first for me. Kristin Olsen, who plays baritone for my Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra, informed me of the event and connected me to Jonathan Marmor. I have used simple effective Graphic Scores for various ensembles since the mid-70's as well as the use of playing cards, dice, numerical processes etc. I also compose using standard notation. For Saturday, a sax quartet version of my orchestra will be there to collaborate on Automatic Music. That evening, we will perform a collaborative piece from the Hackathon and a new work in our own repertoire entitled SWITCHBOARD. I composed this piece as a platform for open improvisation. It is based on the initials of each Musician performing using the alphabet to designate duration. We will also perform Terry Riley's IN C for which anyone who can play the composition is MORE than welcome to join in. Hearing Forward!

zmitri 13y ago

Unfortunately I can't make this, but here's an automatic music hack I built at music hack day this year in Toronto: http://tap-pad.herokuapp.com http://tap-pad.herokuapp.com It uses cellular automatons to generate music and is completely open source: https://github.com/dmitric/tap-pad-web https://github.com/dmitric/tap-pad-web there's even an iOS version: https://github.com/dmitric/tap-pad-ios https://github.com/dmitric/tap-pad-ios If someone there wants to play around with the idea I'd be honored!

hackula1 13y ago
Love it. I had a lot of fun playing around with it.

lobo_tuerto 13y ago

Anyone have any good resources or recommendations for getting into this area? (automatic-algorithmic music generation)

treetrouble 13y ago
There are a couple of subreddits geared towards algorithmic music (http://www.reddit.com/r/algorithmicmusic http://www.reddit.com/r/algorithmicmusic and the more general http://www.reddit.com/r/musicprogramming http://www.reddit.com/r/musicprogramming). Definitely cross/post any other resources you find

thorkell 13y ago

Ahh, looking forward to this. I'll be talking about a thing I made for self-referential composition: https://github.com/tkell/theultimatemachine https://github.com/tkell/theultimatemachine

sidmitra 13y ago

This might be relevant for people: A language for live programming music in clojure: http://mad.emotionull.com/ http://mad.emotionull.com/

mpd123 13y ago

Go JDog go