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@William said:
There need to be direct correspondences which are creatively selected as highly detailed parameters - such as a low note for the color red, a high note for the color blue, a short note for a small spikey object, a long note for a long sinuous object - etc.
That's the "piano player" recipe. As far I know it has never worked. Actually not for Xenakis either.
@William said:
There need to be direct correspondences which are creatively selected as highly detailed parameters - such as a low note for the color red, a high note for the color blue, a short note for a small spikey object, a long note for a long sinuous object - etc.
That's the "piano player" recipe. As far I know it has never worked. Actually not for Xenakis either.
...... Maybe the reason it has never worked is because the piano player didn't program it ! ... And even if one does it still is limited to machine music... Take for example the organ. Today its jam packed with all type of gadgets as in percussions and harmony lines in thirds and fifth's. But no one has implemented the Harmonic minor Scale to use at certain phrases as in the natural minors. Because that is what it would take to correctly use those different color elements with the proper material or articulations. The sharps are bright colors and the Flats are Cooler colors, to properly picture these sounds. ( direct quote from Charles Rosen, Emeritus Professor, Chicago University school of music ) Yes, there is an enormous field of art that one can spend all sort of time to properly accustom to machines. But limited amount of people to Explain or program correctly. Keep up your Good Programing Work, Igrohn. Just out of Curiosity. Since you mentioned the Cliche' bit. What type of music do you listen to ? When you're a way from all this programing. Thats where your mind is. You should program your software to whatever you're interested in. Good music comes in all kinds of styles. You will know if its good. It should give you goose bumps. And our minds are in stages according to where our experience is at any given time. Some get goose bumps with; Tonic - Dominant - Subdominant - dominant - Tonic. Some get Goose bumps with; Tonic - Sub-median - Diminished flattened 7'th - in circular 4th and 5th. Any where one is at on the ladder of Knowledge. Should be the state of mind and understanding for that particular person. To push one into another state, not the proper one for that person, can drive one mad or confused. In the music business, One is warned ! of consequences that can eliminate if trying to promote someone at an advanced stage before his time. Its equivalent to trying to open an updated program in an older version. It cannot be done. but one can open an older program version in a new one anytime one wishes. Thats why a touch of Genius more than often will cause one to be whacky ! By the way Guy Backus's Wacky ducky Music done with VSL at its early stages of conception is the best and first in history of using these samples with an artisic brush. And what one can achieve if a proper piano player would attempt the performance in a modern artistic performing angle. Backus made history with these Samples ! Interesting he named it ducky ....or something Wacky like that. A touch of Genius !I agree with rk about Guy Bacos - he has done some amazing, virtuosic things with samples that most others are simply not attempting. Also, I am curious as to what lgrohn listens to when not programming. Is it anything like synethesia? Or is it more like Led Zeppelin?
PaulR - Art of Fugue is bollocks? I did not realize that. Thanks very much for clearing that up.
So if all the metacomposer does is orchestrate/perform (which is essentially the same as selecting instruments/articulations) it is a huge step down from the past.
rather than his having a go at Bach.
But I'm sure he'll be along soon enough to confirm or correct this.
What type of music do you listen to ? When you're a way from all this programing. Thats where your mind is.
http://www.synestesia.fi/modern_music.html
PS. Chinese people have downloaded this peace about 40000 times:
http://www.synestesia.fi/2007/12/lilies.mp3
Where there minds might be?
What type of music do you listen to ? When you're a way from all this programing. Thats where your mind is.
http://www.synestesia.fi/modern_music.html
PS. Chinese people have downloaded this peace about 40000 times:
http://www.synestesia.fi/2007/12/lilies.mp3
Where there minds might be?
So if all the metacomposer does is orchestrate/perform (which is essentially the same as selecting instruments/articulations) it is a huge step down from the past.
rather than his having a go at Bach.
But I'm sure he'll be along soon enough to confirm or correct this.
@lgrohn said:
My software is not using random numbers and the photos used have structure. I guess we are missing the proper word, aleatoric is not right.
You're quite right that it isn't random - perhaps a better word would be unpredictable? Rolling dice is unpredictable, but it is also a deterministic process - it's just that we can't measure or control the factors that influence the result to the degree required to influence the result. Hence it appears random but actually isn't - it's just unpredictable.
The problem I have with a user of Synestesia calling themself a composer is that they have little direct control over the end result - it's unpredictable. They can influence it of course, but this leads back to my question about aleatoric music. How much unpredictibility is allowable before a composer ceases to be a composer?
Arguably the composer of the music generated by Synestesia is the program itself, and yet here we hit a snag because the program only does what it is told and by that extension is nothing more than an instrument - an exotic player piano.
So we go beyond the instrument to look at what is on the 'page', who created it and by extension could be the composer? Once again - a problem. If you take pictures you're a photographer. The artistic criteria that you apply to taking pictures have nothing to do with the notes that will be generated when the picture is fed through Synestesia.
Even if someone could learn that a certain picture gives a certain result when fed through the program, and they could thus predict the outcome and create images to that end, does that make them a composer? I suppose in theory that's not much different to imagining music, writing it on paper, and having it performed. But doesn't that remove the need for Synestesia? Why not just write it down or record it? The unpredictabilty factor is surely the sine qua non of the program. So that leads us back to my question about aleatoric music.
This is the crux of the question - is someone, as a user of this software, a composer who uses samples for art?
Sorry for the ramble - like Nick I find this subject interesting!
Regards,
Martin
@mosso said:
This is the crux of the question - is someone, as a user of this software, a composer who uses samples for art?
Right. I have asked during years many copyright lawyers who is the composer when I generate music or when some other persons generate music using my sw. Or has the person who took the photo anyt rights to the music. I have not got any definite answers.
It is interesting than during these discussions in different Internet forums, in most cases the claim is that I am the composer because I am using some parameters (instruments etc). Now in this thread most writers seem to think that I am not.
My system is still experimental has quite a many parameters that a not usually used (=changed). All parameters are global. Because my sw generates a midi file that could be changed (which I never do), how many changes should I make to validate as a composer?
My own opinion? My sw is the composer. I have only commissioned the pieces from my sw.
PS.
The piece RAIN
http://www.myspace.com/synestesiasoftware
was presented here in a Music Festival a month ago:
http://www.musiikinaika.org/138_4.html
The painting "rain" was shown in front of the audience as a metascore.
I asked the Artistic Director to put Synestesia Software as a composer, but he put my name to the program...
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