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."

Comments

Re:New speciality in PR

[Antiocheian]

While redudant bitching is an old specialty with a surplus in /.

Ah heck. I'll edit my prefs and stop reading comments.

Re:this is hardly 'new'

[nagora]

He was also an important philosopher, and with his piece 4'33" , he broadened the definition of what is and is not music, just for all you people who are claiming that this stuff "isn't music"

No, he broadened the definition of what pompous assholes would describe as music. Actual music, and people who like music, were unaffected.

TWW