Intelligent MIDI Sequencing with Hamster Control

An anonymous reader writes "Levy Lorenzo managed to build a MIDI sequencer that is powered and operated by hamsters. The hamsters work in teams of two to control melody and rhythm, and Markov chains are used to modify the hamster-based inputs. The sample MP3 sounds pretty good." From the article: "The MIDI sequencer intelligently produced melodies by manipulating the musical elements of rhythm and note-choice. Guided by inputs based on hamster movements, Markov chains were used to perform such beat and note computations. In culmination, 3 simultaneous voices were produced spanning 3 octaves and 3 rhythmic tiers."

Comments

A true test is to compare it to random music.

[ABeowulfCluster]

I feel that with the hamsters 'controlling' rythym and speed, that you would get the same results if your had a random number generator replacing the hamsters.

The true test would be to see if an observer detects any difference between random controls and a hamster.

A Dupe...

[DMUTPeregrine]

...But a cute dupe. Nice littly fuzzy hamsters making music.

Slashcode needs a system to detect dupes. Here is what I propose:

All submissions will include a link to the "article text." This is the primary link in the submission: what the /. article is about.

These links will be kept in a database. Any time an article is submitted to slashdot its primary link will be searched for in the database. If found, the article will be flagged as such (NOT automatically rejected, someone might notice something new about an old document (probably legal or similar) or some such.)

Now to go off and learn to program, so I can add that into the mess that is slashcode... ugh.

Re:Outsourcing opportunity...

[Anonymous Coward]

After listening to the likes of Ashlee Simpson, Lindsay Lohan, and a few others, I'd say it'd be an improvement.

Re:A modest proposal for fixing the Slashdot front

[damiam]

That will never happen. Aside from Taco's view that editors can do a better job than pure mob rule, such a system would be open to immense abuse. Also, Slashdot gets dozens, maybe hundreds of submissions an hour. Do you really want to spend your time looking thtough all of them? That's a lot of drudgery, and the only people willing to do it would be those with an agenda or without a life. That's not exactly the crowd I want picking my stories.