I’ve written several times before (tripping the universe, 3d acoustic rendering, interactive 3d holograms) about virtual music worlds – generative 3D ambient worlds, where your exploration and interaction changes the music you hear. Visual Space Music is an example of that futuristic music experience I’ve been talking about. It’s “a musical instrument, a unique space-based… Read More An Introduction To Visual Space Music
Over at CDM, Peter Kirn turned me onto Hans Kuder’s tiction – a new visual music performance/sequencing application. Tiction is a flexible, nodal music sequencer created in processing. You can see it in action in the video, above. Each node represents an event, and a connection from one node to the next triggers the next event… Read More Fascinating Interactive Generative Music Application
This video from Zonkout demonstrates a self-generating modular synthesizer (Blacet+Modcan) patch with camera-less video feedback, performed live. via Matrix
Last year, we brought you some great video of game creator Will Wright and Brian Eno on generative systems. Here’s the whole enchilada – their Long Now discussion of Spore and generative music and gaming. They touch on all sorts of topics, but it includes great discussions of generative processes and ambient music, fractals, compression… Read More Will Wright & Brian Eno On Generative Music & Gaming
The Sound of eBay is a net art project by Ubermorgen that translates scraped eBay user data into electronica music. Here’s an example – generated from eBay user basketofkittens: [display_podcast] According to Ubermorgen – “The Sound of eBay is the affirmative high-end low-tech contribution to the atomic soundtrack of the new peer-to-peer hyper-catastrophic shock-capitalism.” Note:… Read More Generative Music Alert: The Sound Of eBay
Scott at Bitnotic sent us some info on their new generative ambient music application, chill. chill 1.0b1 is a generative ambient music program for Apple Macintosh computers that creates infinitely varying songs in a ambient/chill out style. Songs played by chill can be saved in AIFF, Wave, and MIDI formats. Songs are royalty-free and can… Read More Test Drive Bitnotic chill – Public Beta of Mac Ambient Music Software
Sims designer Will Wright demonstrates the character-creation phase from his latest game, Spore, with additional commentary by musician Brian Eno: Will Wright and Brian Eno On Generative Systems Will Wright and Brian Eno On The Spore Metaverse
In this video, Brian Eno discusses his generative ambient video/music project, 77 Million Paintings:
