[eu-gene] WolframTones (generative music)

[Joost Rekveld]

hmm,

a quick websaerch turns up this:

http://comp.uark.edu/~dmillen/cam.html

which is 17 years old.

I would suppose there has been cellular automata music around since the 
end of the seventies, since composers tend to be very early adapting 
these kinds of structures..
A wild guess, uninformed as to specific projects, but I do know several 
people who have been using cellular automata for music for years and 
years and years, and they don't claim to be doing something new...

I guess what's annoying about Wolfram is the fact that there is no 
credit whatsoever for precursors, but perhaps even these people are not 
aware of them ?
I've understood that the same criticism holds for parts of his book: he 
does not always credit people who did similar things before him.

On the other hand what is great about the Wolfram endeavor is that he 
makes tons of interesting ideas available to a wide audience, including 
this one.
And I guess if the site is labelled   'a new kind of music', that must 
be true for about 99.9% of the people visiting it...

ciao,

Joost.


On 29 Sep 2005, at 22:24, Jelle Herold wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> While doing my *cough* "homework", I came across this.
> Most interesting.
>
>  WolframTones Launched by Wolfram Research
>
>  A new system of computer-generated music known as WolframTones has
>  been launched by Wolfram Research. WolframTones works by taking
>  simple programs in the form of cellular automata and using music
>  theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music. Each
>  program can be viewed as defining a virtual world and WolframTones
>  captures that computational world as a musical composition
>
> See here for a short introduction:
>
>  http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2005-09-12/wolframtones/
>
> And here is the site itself:
>
>  http://tones.wolfram.com/
>
> Enjoy.
> -- 
> 'The world is actually pear shaped'
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