generative music releases

so most music that's being released by itself is static in the sense that it's the same every time you press play.

 

But today there's quite a few viable delivery mechanisms for music which is not just a fixed PCM audio recording. namely a software producing the music on the fly innit.

 

there is:

- Apps for mobile devices (RJDJ app, tons of sound toys, bjork biophilia)

- demoscene.

- appropriation of certain media (gescom - minidisk)

- videogames often have dynamic soundtracks

- etc.

 

I'm interested in this stuff. Give me music that's released as a dynamic packaga, e.g. software, watmm.

The upcoming Adrian Belew album is going to be somewhat generative, apparently:

 

http://elephant-blog.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/the-genesis-of-flux-music-that-is-never_5.html

 

http://www.guitarmoderne.com/artists/adrian-belew-abandons-nin-for-flux

Edited September 19, 2013 by modey

thx but that video was hard to watch.

i find guitars quite jarring most of the time (yea i'm that edgy).

what's generative about this guy's music?

There's some stuff mentioned in this thread - http://forum.watmm.com/topic/72059-generative-music-applications-as-albums/

  On 9/19/2013 at 9:02 AM, modey said:

The upcoming Adrian Belew album is going to be somewhat generative, apparently:

 

http://elephant-blog.blogspot.com.au/2013/06/the-genesis-of-flux-music-that-is-never_5.html

 

http://www.guitarmoderne.com/artists/adrian-belew-abandons-nin-for-flux

 

Belew is a guitar genius, but this is more improvisation with a loop pedal than generative.

 

Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings project is definitely in the generative realm with a wicked audio visual aspect:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77_Million_Paintings

ah yes, Eno has released a bunch of iphone sound toys as well innit, and hasn't he also made the soundtrack for the game Spore, which supposedly is highly dynamic?

  On 9/19/2013 at 7:26 PM, phling said:

ah yes, Eno has released a bunch of iphone sound toys as well innit, and hasn't he also made the soundtrack for the game Spore, which supposedly is highly dynamic?

Yes, and I didn't know about Spore! That's funny since I just recently started playing Spore again with my 5 year old son.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Spore#Music

iTenori

Nodebeat

Elektroplankton

 

if you want to get more complex with algorithmic/generative stuff then the Nord G2 is worth a look

Farmers Manual were pretty generative/random based. The guys made programs that would rip CDs in real time and send beat slices from them into sequencers. Their release Explorers We is said to have been the main inspiration for Gescom's Minidisc.

For me, these guys along with Jan St Werner Felix Hoenikker and a few others in Europe basically inspired a whole generation of digital artists who employed random techniques to their art.

Farmers manual put out a DVD that had over 24 hours of live material on it, most of it sounding as if it was generated on the spot, not pre-planned. they've put most of it up here for download
http://rla.web.fm/twiki/bin/view/Rla

Edited September 19, 2013 by John Ehrlichman

Monolake had some cool Generative ambient tracks up for download on his website at 1 point but doesnt seem to be there anymore. And he uses it a lot for instaltion work and such like, would love to go see/hear some of his shit like this

 

http://www.monolake.de/installations/fragile_territories.html

eno released a generative album in the late nineties as well when he was enamoured with the SSEYO Koan application.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koan_(program)

http://www.intermorphic.com/inmomusic/generative_music.html

Edited September 19, 2013 by kaini

  On 9/19/2013 at 6:31 PM, phling said:

thx but that video was hard to watch.

i find guitars quite jarring most of the time (yea i'm that edgy).

what's generative about this guy's music?

I can't find any good links about it but he keeps talking about the upcoming album on facebook. His previous releases are just normally recorded albums but apparently the new one will be released as some kind of app that allows for permutations of the music, as far as I can tell.

the last icarus album was generative. There were 1000 unique versions of the album available to download which was pretty cool. They set up a mailing list for owners to swap versions for comparison

  On 9/19/2013 at 9:05 PM, John Ehrlichman said:

Farmers manual put out a DVD that had over 24 hours of live material on it, most of it sounding as if it was generated on the spot, not pre-planned. they've put most of it up here for download

http://rla.web.fm/twiki/bin/view/Rla

I want to thank you again for pointing me towards these guys. I've no doubt told you before but about 10 years ago I merged these two sets together to form a 90 minute mix after you pointing this one out -

 

http://rla.web.fm/19980000_F5K/Hamburg_fsk_%234.reenc.mp3

 

http://rla.web.fm/19980000_F5K/Hamburg_fsk_%235.reenc.mp3

 

And it's still one of my favourite DJ sets to date. Still discovering more and more artists from it even now