tag > Music
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'Music is liquid architecture; architecture is frozen music' - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Roton (2010)
"Taking inspiration from Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise, the Roton is a graphical score for any number of performes and electronic instruments and devices. The score is a kit made of 23 (for now) circle shaped trasparent plastic sheets that the performer can group and arrange in every way he/she wants."
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Reducing all interfaces to text prompts is a failure of imagination and inhumane.
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Conducting is the art of orchestrating a symphony of sounds, transforming an ensemble into a singular, harmonious instrument. How do we applied this concept to computer-mediated music?
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"TANGO: Text to Audio using iNstruction-Guided diffusiOn": Site: https://tango-web.github.io/ Paper: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=1Sn2WqLku1e Code: https://github.com/declare-lab/tango
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Fundamental Frequency, Harmonics & Resonance
"It is a natural property of objects in the world that they generally vibrate at several different frequencies at once." - Daniel J. Levitin, in his book "This Your Brain On Music"
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Quote by @richiehawtin on the process behind his iconic 2001 mix album "DE9 | Closer to the Edit":
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The foundation upon which HipHop was built: Turntable & Sampler
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Cross-pollination of ideas across disciplines is an incredible catalyst for innovation. Unearthing gems from one domain and applying them to another can unlock refreshing creative perspectives.
Image adapted from SuSketch: Surrogate Models of Gameplay as a Design Assistant (video)
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“I rarely listen to anything with drum machines in it. I tend to like more softly played music - music that's created in that beautiful space between silence and whispers" - Roger Linn, legendary electronic music instrument designer
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#Prediction: Spotify & co will soon start to ban many songs that are suspected being generated by/with AI. Countless songs will be wrongly flagged as synthetic.
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Japanese "War Tuba" was one of the first "radar" detection system for incoming aircraft in WWI.
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I'm fortunate to have many musicians as friends. Most of them are deeply worried about the impending AI-generated music wave. As practitioners in this field, we bear a responsibility to take this seriously & focus on creating tools that empower musicians, rather than replace them
