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Cellular Automata and Music Using Java
Justin Powell writes "Take computers, mathematics, and the Java Sound API, add in some Java code, and you've got a recipe for creating some uniquely fascinating music. IBM Staff Software Engineer Paul Reiners demonstrates how to implement some basic concepts of algorithmic music composition in the Java language. He presents code examples and resulting MIDI files generated by the Automatous Monk program, which uses the open source jMusic framework to compose music based on mathematical structures called cellular automata."
The RIAA announced today that they will be using this technology to phase out recording artists altogether. CDs will still cost $16.99, though.
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so, computer generated music sounds like... well... computer generated music.
;)
or maybe like a four year old banging on a keyboard.
although, does that mean the program has intelligence equivalent with a four year old human?
at the very least, let's hope it's better than jessica simpson/christina/britney music. this is a little less formulaic, so i suppose it's on the right track.
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I can't wait to hear these new Java-written MIDIs on Geocities pages, complete with leet spinning skulls and black background...
Trolling is a art,
All one has to do is click the midi link to realize that the tinkering of a first year piano student could easily be mistaken for a celluar automata.
Tell me when it starts believing things for me...
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the RIAA...consider yourself busted....
No, its like this:
You go out two notes and calculate the weight based on the cosine of the third note. Divide that by the last note of a harmonic frequency. If the note in question is sharp or flat, divide by six and take the remainder. Omit every third note. After the sixth note, if the notes are in fact, collinear and not symmetric, you can reverse the cofactor matrix and restore the eigenvalues, but not without first calculating the modulus of the largest cubic divisor.
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It probably sounds better than Spam Radio, at least.
-- Nate
It's a hoax, this is obviously music from a bossfight in one of the castlevania games..
OK not really, but listen to it!
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Wow. I have no idea what you just said, but it reminded me of the Hit Song Science program which is the music industry software that predicts whether a tune is going to be a "hit" or a "miss"
Appropriately enough for this thread, this article has a quote from Polyphonic HMI's chief executive Mike McCready "There are a limited number of mathematical formulas for hit songs. We don't know why."
Once they open-source those mathematical formulas that they've derived, then we can start using all the music development software to get rich.
yeah, but would you rather look at the three of them or a fractal? :)
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hey due to the complexity of fractals its entirely possible to find a pair of breasts in the mandlebrot fractal, i'm writing a thesis on it and hope to find them some day.
I thought you might have had a point, up until I saw the Tori Amos bit. That can be generated by kicking a cat in the nuts.