An Experiment in A New Kind of Music

waynegoode writes "Stephen Wolfram's Wolfram Research has produced an new application: WolframTones-- 'An Experiment in A New Kind of Music'. It combines the principles in Stephen's book, 'A New Kind of Science' and Mathematica to 'instantly create unique music' in many different styles. They describe it as pretty neat as well as being scientifically interesting, and useful. After listening to some compositions and creating a few random ones myself, I must agree that it is. And anyone who has listen to the radio the last few years could certainly use some unique music."

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Too bad it requires QuickTime

[ReformedExCon]

It looks pretty neat, but I can't play it because it requires QuickTime. Personal prejudice, I know, but both QT and Real have proven to me in the past that they aren't willing to work and play nicely with others.

Does anyone have a sample saved in wav or mp3 format?

Re:Too bad it requires QuickTime

[commodoresloat]

I'm on a Mac, and I can't play it because my Mozilla-based browser (Camino) is recognized as IE, and because it defaults to "Sorry, go download mozilla if you want to see this." First, I am using mozilla, but I'm too lazy to find the text file I'm supposed to edit with my browser definition (it's much easier to bitch about it on slashdot you know). Second, I think this kind of thing is imperialistic whether it comes from the IE side or the mozilla side. There should at least be a "try anyway" button to click; it's not like trying it with IE will crash your machine. But it's especially frustrating when you have the tools that are allowed and it still kicks you out. Sure, I could find my textfile and change it to say Mozilla (though I thought that was what it said anyway), but I don't want to listen to computer generated music badly enough to go through the trouble.

That's it; I'm going to Moe's!

I got sucked in to the Tones man!

[RentonSentinel]

I forgot to come back and post... until just now...

Thats badass...