Imitating Steve Reich
Recently I was enjoying Steve Reich's "Octet" (Eight Lines) and became curious if I could mimic the simple, staccato phrases with which he starts off his piece.
tl;dr: reichify
Musical Ngrams Round II
What are "ngrams"? And how do they relate to music? Well ngrams are basically groups of tokens. These groups are of a certain given size - say phrases of three words. If we consider notes as tokens we get musical ngrams! We can count the number of occurrences of each ngram phrase, and thus know how many times a given phrase is repeated. How often does Bach repeat himself, for instance?
Evolving Barycentric Chords
What do the fittest barycentric chords of an evolutionary generic algorithm sound like? Bary- what? Genetic what?
tl;dr: barycenter4
Hearing an Image One Pixel at a Time
Tonight I became curious as to what an image would sound like when "played" one pixel at a time.
tl;dr: The play-pixels program.
Game of Life Glider Audio Rendering
Yesterday I became curious about what Conway's Game of Life structures might sound like on a grid of musical notes ("note-space").