how i missed this! I want to make something for this!
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A gray world of dread
Sure, it's been a bit silent but this is a good opportunity to revive this.
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Minneapolis
Hum, this sounds cool. I find it interesting/ironic that Themistocles was the first to submit. I wonder, how much of the music do you want to be procedural? Because, TBH, procedural accents in the music is actually cool as long as it's accompanied by actual composition. Think Planet Boelex, with his little clips, beeps, blups, and glitches that kinda run in the background and add texture. I'm pretty sure he does those procedurally, while the rest is obviously composed.
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A gray world of dread
arfink wrote:
I find it interesting/ironic that Themistocles was the first to submit
How so?
arfink wrote:
I wonder, how much of the music do you want to be procedural? Because, TBH, procedural accents in the music is actually cool as long as it's accompanied by actual composition. Think Planet Boelex, with his little clips, beeps, blups, and glitches that kinda run in the background and add texture. I'm pretty sure he does those procedurally, while the rest is obviously composed.
Hmm, the reason why I started this compo was because it's interesting to see how much influence and control a musician (and in this case, coder) can exercise on sound and structure with his algorithm. So I'd like emphasis on the procedural element(s), but I don't mind a composed structure to frame it. As long as the generative part doesn't vanish into the background, I have no problem with that. I trust the people on this site enough to make a good judgment by themselves 
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The Hollow Earth
I think that like circuit/data/soft bending, generative music is all about the randomness but there's no denying that there is some musician influence, only in the initiation. Even with field recordings, there's always human initiation in that you decided to press the record button at certain time. The point is that you select an algorithm to write the music instead of yourself or another person.
For my generative music I usually use Tim Thompson's Muse-O-Matic and Gif Jam MIDI algorithms. Anyway, I'm glad to see that this is still on. Where do I send my final track? Any limits on length, file size, etc?
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A gray world of dread
Once you're done with the track, send me a PM and I'll give you contact details. If your track exceeds 15MB or you want to submit something lossless I'd prefer you upload it somewhere for me to download. No real restriction on duration of the track, but let's keep it sensible 
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The Hollow Earth
Sweet! I'll try to send something soon.
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California
sounds neat but have no idea where to even make something like this.... 
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The Hollow Earth
Rei Yano wrote:
sounds neat but have no idea where to even make something like this....
Here are some things to get you started:
http://nosuch.com/tjt/tunetoys.html
http://www.intermorphic.com/tools/noatikl/
http://algoart.com/download.htm
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I might contribute something using databent GB roms, had some interesting results (and a lot of tedious trial and error)...
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Godzilladelph
you should ask vickysbooties for some of his pure data stuff, shit is mindblowing
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Nomad's Land
somewhat related:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_ … 579512.stm
Scientists and composers have produced a new choral work in which singers sing parts of their own genetic code.
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Tacoma WA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoric_music
somewhat along the same lines..
read about it here
http://www.synthgear.com/2010/synthesiz … lar-synth/
interesting
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A gray world of dread
Second track is in!
Thanks, Subterrestrial!