DarwinTunes Iterates, Mixes And Culls To Create Listenable Music From Noise

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 21, 2012 @02:32AM from the soon-there-will-be-cover-bands dept.

Shipud writes "A collaboration between a group in Imperial College and Media Interaction group in Japan yielded a really cool website: darwintunes.org. The idea is to apply Darwinian-like selection to music. Starting form a garble, after several generations producing something that is actually melodic and listen-able. The selective force being the appeal of the tune to the listener. From the paper published [Monday] (abstract) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 'At any given time, a DarwinTunes population has 100 loops, each of which is 8 s long. Consumers ratethem on a five-point scale ("I can't stand it" to "I love it") as they are streamed in random order. When 20 loops have been rated,truncation selection is applied whereby the best 10 loops are paired, recombine, and have two daughters each.' Note that in 2009 the creators of darwintunes harnessed the power of Slashdot to help 'evolve' their site."

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Re:Darwins evolution principals actually lead to t by davidwr · 2012-06-21 02:48 · Score: 3, Funny

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Ah, so this is what "Starting form a garble" means.

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now just ... by mister2au · 2012-06-21 02:48 · Score: 1, Funny

Stick a drum beat over that and we have a Eurovision 2013 winner !
Excellent! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-21 02:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Going to grab this software, have it run 24/7 on a Beowulf cluster of servers filled with GPUs. Eventually I will own the copyright in EVERY piece of music not yet in existence!
So it's... by a90Tj2P7 · 2012-06-21 03:03 · Score: 4, Funny

Survival of the phattest?
I have an idea by kelemvor4 · 2012-06-21 04:25 · Score: 4, Funny

Apply this to top 40 songs and turn them into music as well...