Music by computers

December 9, 2005 10:12 AM

The servers are alive with the sound of music. Wolfram Tones takes patterns found out in the computer universe and converts them to completely original musical scores (which still may sound familiar, weirdly enough). Visitors to the site can then tweak styles, instrumentation and pitch (Phyrigian hexatonic, anyone?). Compositions can be saved, e-mailed or downloaded to your cellphone. Via.
posted by Sully6 (14 comments total)

Very cool stuff. This could be hooked up to Ableton Live for some MIDI fun.
posted by Rothko at 10:26 AM on December 9, 2005

This is neat.
posted by destro at 10:45 AM on December 9, 2005

This went over really well at MetaChat. Let's see how it fares here!
posted by Wolfdog at 11:01 AM on December 9, 2005

Wow, this is amazing. I'll be playing with this all weekend.
posted by Rothko at 11:07 AM on December 9, 2005

Not as fun as playing the piano, but fun.
posted by kozad at 11:08 AM on December 9, 2005

Hasn't this been posted before?

Anyway, the damn thing didn't work on my PC, very irritating.
posted by delmoi at 11:09 AM on December 9, 2005

The hiphop generator is woefully ignorant of the range of rhythmic variations that actually make up hiphip. Other than that, cool.
posted by Tlogmer at 11:10 AM on December 9, 2005

Only works for me in IE, btw.
posted by Tlogmer at 11:10 AM on December 9, 2005

I fiddled around with for awhile on my crap work PC with Firefox. No problems.
posted by Sully6 at 11:24 AM on December 9, 2005

Its much more fun if you fuck with all the options.
posted by Tlogmer at 11:32 AM on December 9, 2005

Agreed.
posted by Rothko at 11:48 AM on December 9, 2005

Almost as fun as a circuit bending casio mod. This is what makes the interweb so great.
posted by Fezboy! at 11:51 AM on December 9, 2005

fun.
posted by jann at 1:26 PM on December 9, 2005

cool. but am i the only one who finds stephen wolfram's self-importance incredibly, unbearably obnoxious?
posted by sergeant sandwich at 7:16 PM on December 9, 2005