Tag: Music
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Listening to the Forest’s Metabolism
My current artistic research explores the sonic expression of a forest’s metabolism. I’m using specialized microphones to capture the subtle vibrations and sounds produced by living organisms and ecological processes, and then translating these patterns into musical sound. My goal is to create a unique kind of concert experience where the forest itself becomes a…
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VLOG 4: Nearing True Machine-Musician Interaction? Exploring Rhythm through Fractal Proportions
We are nearing our objective of enabling our computer to interact with a live musician in a manner that closely resembles the interaction with another musician. In this fourth vlog, we explore the user interface developed by Samuel Peirce-Davies, which employs the ml.markov object to learn music from MIDI files. Our aim is to extend…
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How (not) to compose music
I made a profile in wikihow.com, and by chance, I saw this article: How to Compose Music The people who have written it out have really done a lot of effort, including pedagogical graphics like this one: Unfortunately, the text is a tour de force through all the typical misconceptions you would meet in any…