Automatic Music Hacks 2016!
Saturday, February 20th, 2016 about 230 people gathered to share ideas about Automatic Music: algorithmic music composition, computer-aided music analysis, live-coding tools, and many more subjects. We kicked the day off with four inspirational talks about the history of algorithmic art and in-depth explanations of four artists work. We then had a lively project brainstorming session with more than 60 people, four workshops on software tools for making music automatically, and a full day of hacking!
Talks
A Historical Survey of Algorithmic Music TechniquesPepper (AKA Andrew Sallop Fenlon), Live-Code Musician
Creating Music from Anything
Halley Young, composer/programmer
An Exploration into the Sonification of Data and Algorithms
Rosenberg Algorithmic Music Generator
Mick Sussman, Composer
Using Max-MSP and JavaScript to autonomously create unique compositions using randomized processes that select values for hundreds of variables that control sound synthesis patches and their musical parameters, generating an ensemble of instruments and melodic loops that evolve over time, using microtonal scales and complex rhythmic layering.
Fractal Music
Erika Nesse, Composer and Programmer
A brief review of what fractals are. How to construct normal visual fractals. What is known about the fractal properties of music. How certain standard patterns of phrasing and rhythm have fractal qualities. How Fractal Music Machine works.
Workshops
ChucK, Avneesh SarwateMaterials from the workshop: https://github.com/AvneeshSarwate/chuckWorkshop
Max, Sam Tarakajian
Materials from the workshop: https://github.com/starakaj/automated_max_workshop
SuperCollider, Nick Colvin
Tone.JS, Yotam Mann
Hacks
Fractal Counterpoint
Elliot Cole, Erika Nesse, Dan Tepfer
Creator’s description: Algorithmic counterpoint, fractal rhythm
PictoVolo
by Shafik Quoraishee
Creator’s description: This is an Android image to sound visualizer, in short
Patter
by Matthew Stein, Warren Enström, Jason Wangsadinata, Joomy Korkut
Creator’s description: This is a game that generates music depending on the patterns you create by clicking on the cells on a grid. You can alter the music by creating new patterns.
https://github.com/weshack/patter
https://github.com/weshack/patter
Socialist Streaming
by Thor Kell
Creator’s description: What if music streaming services robbed from the rich, and gave to the poor?
http://tide-pool.ca/socialist-streaming
GloBeats
by Tim Hilton, David Druker
Creator’s description: A universal collaborative MPC player. 16 pads, unlimited users.
https://mysterious-river-54971.herokuapp.com/
TweetSounds
by Halley Young, Katarina Hoeger, Peter Wood, Paul Schnau, Carolina Medellin
Creator’s description: Converts a person’s twitter timeline into music!
https://github.com/caromedellin/tweets-sounds
https://i.imgur.com/oi4H4lQ.jpg
Will They or Won’t They
by Eve Weinberg
Creator’s description: Using a Markov chain in Tone.js and javascript. Its different every time….
http://www.neveroddoreven.tv/
by Richard Song, Yustynn Paniker Cody Schwartz, Nick Palenchar, Assaf Packin
Creator’s description: Conway’s Game of Life, with music mapped over each step iteration.
Extreme Timestretch Bot
by CJ Carr
Creator’s description: “I developed an alternative transient-aware Phase Vocoder Extreme Timestretch which uses Harmonic-Percussive Source Separation to determine stretch factors. Then I used it to power a soundcloud bot that spiders soundcloud remixing songs into super long stretched versions.
I used Librosa created by Brian McFee!!
http://soundcloud.com/extremetimestretch
by Atharva Vaidya, Matt Condon, Eric Guo, Kayla Williams
Creator’s description: Journey based playlists.
Harmonizer
by Christopher De Jesus, Michael Beigelmacher, Elliotte, Steve Wong, Caroline Lee, Jermaine
Creator’s description: This musical app uses the input of a note and in turn, outputs that note and the third harmonic note simultaneously. The user specifies either a major or minor key from a dropdown menu; the code, after receiving its user selection, finds its corresponding scale.
ringTunes
by Ronald Adomako
Creator’s description: Randomly generated top ring tones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxCzitst0dE
Adaptive Markov Sequencer
by Will Chang
Creator’s description: Self-modifying Markov transition matrix sequencer for sliced-buffer playback.
https://github.com/wkc1986/wkc.AMseq
Fractal Face Music
by David Maiman and Asheik Hussain
Creator’s description: We created a project that will take a photo of someone, convert their face into a fractal, and then we will play the image iterating out from the center of the image array to the outer edges.
Neo Classical Sound
by Matt Genkin, Matt Aidekman, Ernesto Gramsch, David Alexis
Creator’s description: Using a proprietary algorithm, we have made Neo Classical Sound! The sounds of Bach, Mozart, and other legendary composers is remixed into a sound that is representative of the modern age!
Algorithmic Piano Album
by Natalie Braginsky
Creator’s description: A set of piano pieces coded in SuperCollider
Crunch Time
by Pepper
Thinking about music in terms of features and parameters.
