Opal has released Scape – a new generative music application, created by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers. Here’s what they have to say about Scape: Scape is a new form of album which offers users deep access to its musical elements. These can be endlessly recombined to behave intelligently: reacting to each other, changing mood together,… Read More Brian Eno’s Scape Asks ‘Can Machines Create Original Music?’
This video documents a recent lecture by Brian Eno, in Moscow, 2011. via musicofsound
Reader Jay Kim sent word of a new audiovisual installation, inspired by John Cage: Variations II of Variations II is a kinetic sculpture inspired by John Cage’s Variations series. Cage’s Variations II is a graphical composition that generates musical events using measurements of distance between dots and lines on a piece of paper. In my realization… Read More Variations II Of Variations II
The Infinite Music Machine is a generative ambient music work that offers ‘an immersive digital journey into the analog world of Juju & Jordash‘. On the 24th of February 2012 at Berlin’s Feed Soundspace, Juju and Jordash gave a live improvised performance, accompanied by artist Paul Skawinski’s liquid projections. The application takes their muliple layers of… Read More The Infinite Music Machine
Intermorphic has introduced Noatikl 2, the latest version of their desktop generative music software for Mac & Windows. It’s currently available, in beta stage. Here’s what’s new…..
Developer Julien Bayle has released a new generative music app for iOS, Digital Collision (App Store link), that creates sounds based on physics collisions algorithms. Bayle says that Digital Collision “can produces real nice sound textures from the most clear to the weirdest granular.” Features: The sound engine is a polyphonic tone generator. Touch the screen… Read More New iOS Generative Music App, Digital Collision, Makes Music With Physics Collision Algorithms
Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures Ambient Synthesis – a sound sculpture, created by Amanda Ghassaei, that responds to light to create a unique audiovisual interpretation of its environment. Light sensors in the device pick up changes in its surroundings (the scenes from this video demonstrate the piece responding to sunsets and sunrises). This data is interpreted… Read More Ambient Synthesis Sculpture Reacts To Its Environment
Lawrence Ball‘s double CD Method Music is a new collection of generative music that’s inspired by ideas Pete Townshend has explored over the last 40 years, with his Lifehouse project. Townshend’s Lifehouse had its origin in a sci-fi rock opera, written as a follow up to Tommy. One of the key ideas of the project was… Read More Lawrence Ball’s ‘Method Music’ Explores The World Of Generative Music Buried In The Who’s ‘Baba O’Riley’
Reader Tim Webb (discchord) takes a look at Physynth, in this new video review. Physynth uses a physics engine to trigger sounds using four simulators. In Physynth, you ‘charge’ physical objects with sound and collide them with other objects to trigger them. Features: Four-track Soundscaping. Play with Realtime melody or rhythm over-dubbing. Physics-triggered sample engine… Read More Physynth For iPad Review
Intermorphic has updated Mixtikl, its multi-platform generative music app, adding MIDI export, a visualizer screen and more. It is now easier to create new mixes, and you can now also include short messages / poems / haikus in your mixtikls, as well as options on how you want the new visualiser screen to display them.… Read More Mixtikl 5 Adds MIDI Export, Visualizer & More
