Music By Natural Selection

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 21, 2009 @07:57AM from the survival-of-the-grooviest dept.

maccallr writes "The DarwinTunes experiment needs you! Using an evolutionary algorithm and the ears of you the general public, we've been evolving a four bar loop that started out as pretty dismal primordial auditory soup and now after >27k ratings and 200 generations is sounding pretty good. Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed. We got some coverage in the New Scientist CultureLab blog but now things have gone quiet and we'd really appreciate some Slashdotter idle time. We recently upped the maximum 'genome size' and we think that the music is already benefiting from the change."

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If You're Looking for an Introduction to This by eldavojohn · 2009-12-21 08:14 · Score: 5, Interesting

A long time ago when I was learning lisp, I worked through an interesting book by Heinrich Taube called Notes from the Metalevel. A very enlightening and interesting work for people interested in both music theory and computer science.

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copyright? by Tablizer · 2009-12-21 08:43 · Score: 5, Interesting

What keeps people from herding it toward an existing copyrighted tune? Even composers accidentally do this all the time.

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