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An Experiment in A New Kind of Music

Posted by Zonk on from the good-way-to-spend-a-few-hours dept.

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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  1. Re: Wolfram by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Quote the text. Don't give us your interpetation of something you don't like just becuase it went over your head in terms of technical detail or complexity.

  2. Re:New speciality in PR by Antiocheian · · Score: 0, Troll

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

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

  3. Re:this is hardly 'new' by nagora · · Score: 0, Troll
    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

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  4. Re: Wolfram by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Obviously you are coming from a matlab school which is one of the worst programs ever written (Yes I have interned two summers there and vowed that will never use it again). Coming back to Wolfram, I am not sure if you even understood what he is says in the book. Atleast I didn't understand most of it until he gave a talk here and also personal conversations. If nothing else, it has neat and beautiful mathematics in it. Ofcourse moron programmers don't understand it and their lives is revolving around writing 90% of code which is used 10% of time.

    Coming to Wolfram himself. He blows his horn. Fine. I also find him cocky. But hey he knows his stuff. He wrote his first scientific paper at age of 15 and at 15 I was just passing around notes in class. He can do whatever he wants. And as far as I know him, he doesn't care what others think (same as Feynman). If you disagree, do you have anything better ? If no, then just shut th f**k up and do your work.