[eu-gene] Psst...Wanna Buy an Algorithm? (Working Title)

[Lauri Gröhn]

At 15:20 15.10.2005, you wrote:
>Translation engines such as Lauri's Synestesia have a confusing position
>for me.  A brief listen suggested to me that Lauri's software is
>scanning across the image, somehow translating pixels into sound.

In my systems pixels are used in many different ways and it has nothing to do
"piano roll" approaches that have never worked to my knowledge. Just taking
an example using my Synestesia system. Pixels have influence on pitches
and timing but one can't tell a priori looking at 
two nearby pixels which pixels
"generates" higher pitches or earlier notes.

My systems is deterministic but one could set up random numbers for
parameters if one likes it that way (I don't). So my opinion is that randomness
can't be any demarcation for generative music. For the mapping
picture  ---> music
the total structure of the picture gives the structure of the Synestesia music.
You can have very "organized music" for some pictures
see numbers 3-4 or just tapestry (still being highly emotional) see number 7
here: www.synestesia.com

One business line of my system is that anybody could generates music
from his/her own pictures (you can try it already  on my page in a way)
The other line is generating copyright free music for games, films. etc.

I am just waiting for the FIRST REAL COMPETITOR for my Synestesia SW.
Please inform me if you know any.

Lauri Gröhn
metacomposer
Otaniemi Technology Park
Finland


>Many of us will have played with such techniques, but simple scanning
>seems an unsuitable way of translating between domains.  What matters in
>an image aren't the pixels, but the shapes and forms created by
>interactions between the pixels.  These interactions aren't represented
>as a one dimensional scan of the image, but a movement across it by the
>eye.  Basically I think almost nothing about an image is translated in
>such scans, of a photographic image at least.
>alex
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