#algorithmic music

[burlveneer-music]

William Fields - Fictions - continuing to push the boundaries of generative music, making it sound both introspective and playful

William Fields, the electronic musician working in areas of algorithmic composition and improvisation, makes his debut on GOTO with “Fictions”. Continuing a slew of releases across labels such as Superpang, Tokinogake and Conditional, “Fictions” is a perfect slice of Fields’ computer music – never robotic, constantly shifting and, at times, straight up jazzy. Fields is keen to state that these pieces are performed, with several of the tracks taken directly from public live appearances. Nevertheless, each composition retains structure and familiarity, both somewhat rarities in the majority of music made via similar processes. The eight tracks here display a wide range of aesthetic approaches, however, ranging from the raucous, freeform “Febih” through the computer jazz of “Obu” to the more luscious atmospheres of “Athal” and “Ifotux”. Fields has been working in electronic music since 1998, performing regularly between the United States and Canada. A frequent collaborator, his work has received high praise from peers internationally. For several years, Fields has developed his own music software, “FieldsOS”, from which the majority of his output is produced. A particular highlight in the construction of “FieldsOS” was a weekly spot on Resonance Extra in 2019, where the system generated an hour of algorithmic music each week, broadcast without any edits. As time progresses, so does Fields’ “music system,” with “Fictions” exhibiting some of his most organic machine-music to date. May William Fields guide you through his world of musical spaces and systems. Performed and mixed by William Fields. Mastered for compact disc by Finlay Shakespeare. Artwork by Meggie Wood.

#william fields #electronic #computer music #algorithmic music #generative music #2023 #philadelphia #delaware #goto records #glitch

[kristo-flowers]

Most of the time i post photo's here, but my main occupation is composing experimental music. Check out my newest album: Compositions with pure tones

A series of very abstract compositions, for which the source material was generated through additive synthesis with pure sine tones. The pitch, envelope and volume of 100 oscillators was controlled via algorithms to create a wide variety of sounds and sonic evolutions. A selection of those sounds was then further processed and combined in several layers in a more intuitive way.

Best listened to on good quality speakers or headphones on moderate volume. Contains a lot very high and low frequencies which will not reproduce correctly on cheap speakers like the ones builtin in laptops or smartphones.

Listen/purchase: Compositions with pure tones by kristof lauwers

#bandcamp #music #soundscape #electroacoustic #art music #additive synthesis #avant-garde #avant-garde music #contemporary classical #algorithmic music #experimental music #acousmatic #computer music #computer generated

[aitalksblog]

The Meteoric Rise of Generative AI Music

(Image generated by author with BlueWillow) In our previous post, we explored the transformative power of generative AI in the art industry. We saw how AI can be used to create stunning and innovative artworks. In this post, we will shift our focus to the music industry. With more than 14 million songs created (14% of the world’s music recordings) by just one platform under three years,…

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#AI #AI Music Generator #AI-generated Music #Algorithmic music #Computer-generated music #Generative AI Music #Music Industry #Streaming Platforms

[prokopetz]

I've noticed that YouTube's auto-generated captions have begun indicating when music without dialogue is playing, but sometimes these musical interludes are captioned as "[music]", and sometimes they're captioned as "[foreign music]", and at first I was like "okay, there must be some algorithmic exotifying going on here", but I've listened to numerous examples and for the life of me I can't figure out how it decides which one to use. At one point it was captioning the Pizza Tower soundtrack as "[foreign music]".

#media #music #youtube #machine learning #the algorithm #food mention

[tennessoui]

so i've been thinking about this premise for so long but it wasn't working for obikin (which of course i took as a challenge) and i think i finally got it where i want it so

au where 35 yo obi-wan is a music sensation across the world but he's recently divorced and going on tour again after releasing a very cutting, personal, and well-received album

and 19 yo anakin joins his tour with his very small band of two other people (ahsoka, padmé) to be his opening act - they have a small but loyal following, a pretty big social media presence, and there are even people who ship anakin and padmé which you know means these are die-hard fans

anakin has definitely looked up to obi-wan and his music for a good portion of his life and he's like. beyond excited that he's going to tour with The Obi-Wan Kenobi - this is big, not just for his music career but also for himself and the little boy he was listening to obi-wan's music for the first time!!

i'm just imagining like....obi-wan and anakin meeting after a few days of rehearsal for opening night, and it's not the most auspicious start because obi-wan's going through like 20 different emotions at any given moment (he's on tour, he's divorced, he's tired, he loves the music, he can't be the person he was in his twenties when he was first on tour but that's a whole different matter, he has all the media training and charismatic instinct to cover up these less than savory emotions with flirtatious empty words) and anakin is just like. sorta starstruck sorta shy sorta eager sorta awkward so:

"i'm uh, i'm a singer it's nice to meet you. hi yeah. hello. i'm on tour. as well. with you. actually." "ah no, are you one of my backing vocal artists? we can't have that - you're much too gorgeous and my ego is much too dependent on the audience focusing on me." "um 😳"

so it's a relationship that begins with a lot of flirting and being flustered and progresses through moments of vulnerability and honest emotion which turns into mutual affection which turns into anakin's celebrity crush becoming very real....meanwhile obi-wan googled anakin and the opening band after the first show/introduction and finds all the stuff about him and padmé being together and that's. that's fine. young love. how sweet. any sort of disappointment obi-wan feels is because he's recently divorced and bitter about it and he's going to have to spend at least half his tour watching the lovebirds snuggling up together.

and even when all the misunderstandings about relationship statuses have been addressed and the pretense has fallen away to leave just attraction, both have to think about their careers - it's all well and good for obi-wan to date someone sixteen years his junior, post divorce, but that's an image he's never wanted to deal with or be associated with. and this is the biggest shot of anakin's career - his best chance to make it in the music industry. in the words of his bandmate, is he really, honestly thinking about risking it for a chance to sleep with The Obi-Wan Kenobi?

but what his bandmate doesn't seem to really understand is that for anakin, obi-wan hasn't been The Obi-Wan Kenobi in a long time. he's just been obi-wan. and that makes a world of difference.

#kit's silly lil aus #obikin #my social media algorithm pulled me into music-tok but make it instagram reels lol #and then i watched the grammys last night #so i was like fine lets come back to this and figure out what's missing #so i know it basically sounds like what if firefighter au obi-wan was a little more jaded and less flirty #coupled with what if band au anakin opened for firefighter au obi-wan #but i'm seeing different nuances for the characters so i feel comfortable making this its own post #like. what if you met the person you were going to love forever at somehow #both the best time in the world for your career #and the worst time in the world for your personal life #etc etc #sorry for the long post i hope you can tell this is all i thought about on a 5k run today lol

[alex-the-anxious-2]

i'm cooking

ok guys i'm riding the brainrot and trying to make a marble hornets friday night funkin mod so i gotta know, do i make Boyfriend [little blue boy who sings] Jay? Or does he stay little blue boy?

also, tim's pose sketches so far,, if u think i should change anything lmk! i feel like his down pose might be a little lame? unsure

i am perfectly aware i might not get much of a response seeing as this is literally such a niche BUT.

#marble hornets #marble hornets tim #tim wright #jay merrick #mh jam #friday night funkin #marble hornets jay #idk how tumblr algorithm works just. hoping a few people see this LOL #also if ur wondering. no i dont do music this will be my first time ever trying #oh god why am i doing this #FOR TIMOTHY #I plan on HOPEFULLY as long as the dopamine allows doing 3 songs for tim #then hopefully at least 2 for alex #id also like to do a cool lil special song where its like tim chasing alex #craziest rap battle ever dawg #IM SORRY FOR RAMBLING IN TAGS OMG TUMBLR WILL HAVE MY HEAD

[probablyasocialecologist]

No streaming platform can accurately predict taste; humans are too dynamic to be predicted consistently. Instead, Spotify builds models of users and makes predictions by recommending music that matches the models. Stuck in these feedback loops, musical styles start to converge as songs are recommended according to a pre-determined vocabulary of Echo Nest descriptors. Eventually, listeners may start to resemble the models streaming platforms have created. Over time, some may grow intolerant of anything other than an echo.  Before there were Echo Nest parameters, the 20th century music industry relied on other kinds of data to try to make hits. So-called “merchants of cool” hit the streets to hunt for the next big trend, conducting studies on teenage desire that generated tons of data, which was then consulted to market the next hit sensation. This kind of data collection is now built into the apparatus for listening itself. Once a user has listened to enough music through Spotify to establish a taste profile (which can be reduced to data like songs themselves, in terms of the same variables), the recommendation systems simply get to work. The more you use Spotify, the more Spotify can affirm or try to predict your interests. (Are you ready for some more acousticness?)  Breaking down both the products and consumers of culture into data has not only revealed an apparent underlying formula for virality; it has also contributed to new kinds of formulaic content and a canalizing of taste in the age of streaming. Reduced to component parts, culture can now be recombined and optimized to drive user engagement. This allows platforms to squeeze more value out of backlogs of content and shuffle pre-existing data points into series of new correlations, driving the creation of new content on terms that the platforms are best equipped to handle and profit from. (Listeners will get the most out of music optimized for Spotify on Spotify.) But although such reconfigured cultural artifacts might appear new, they are made from a depleted pantry of the same old ingredients. This threatens to starve culture of the resources to generate new ideas, new possibilities.

#spotify #data #music #algorithms

[foursaints]

saints i feel like it’s been so long since you shared your Evan thoughts I feel like I’m losing my grasp of him quick do you think he listens to music or does he sit in silence with his own thoughts

of course he mostly sits in dead silence with his own thoughts, anon…

don’t lose sight of him!! he’s sitting right over there in one of the dusty wicker chairs scattered around rosier manor, with his over-large sleeves pulled over his fingers. he thinks there is a logic to animal behavior (eat or be eaten) that we could all emulate. he bites his fingernails to the quick. he’s an ephebe & an ingenue & a waking nightmare. he looks like a porcelain doll left to decay under a bed. he is nowhere close to being as in control as he would like to be. he’s an overmature child that acts like an adult & an undersocialized adult who is as ignorant with other people as a child… he doesn’t eat enough. he peels off his bloody surgical gloves & goes to bed without showering for weeks, hair caked in gore. he died in a fucking duel!!!!!

#a #‘it’s been so long’ it really has been… this ask hurts…. #i’ve been lost in the reverie of trying to answer my anons but i think we need to reprioritize #for the record i think evan is indifferent to music. as he is with most stimuli #like his emotions are neither overly positive nor negative. sounds overstimulate him easily. he probably wouldn’t seek music out a lot #but he doesn’t HATE it. and in my head he listens to sorting algorithms probably

[glorious-blackout]

I was tagged by @uhbasicallyjustmilex, thank you! 🥰

go to your 'on repeat' playlist on spotify (heavy rotation mix on apple music), throw it on shuffle and share the first 10 songs you get

Lunch - Billie Eilish

Straight Jacket Fitting - Queens of the Stone Age

Svarte Katter & Flosshatter (Live) - Kaizers Orchestra

Tsunami (11:11) - Bambie Thug

Starburster - Fontaines D.C.

Now and Then - The Beatles

Krip - Go_A

Stone - Bashar Murad

Europapa - Joost Klein

Ruoska - Käärijä, Erika Vikman

Tagging: @rock-n-roll-fantasy, @aeolianblues, @thespiritofvexation, @see-sawed, @burn-on-the-flame, @alexturne and anyone else who wants to do it 💚

#think the Spotify algorithm is glitching because as much as I like 'Lunch' I've been listening to 'Blue' and 'Chihiro' from Billie's new - #- album far more regularly and they're nowhere to be seen on the playlist 😅 #genuinely surprised by how much I'm vibing to the album considering I'd only really consider myself a casual fan of Billie's #then again I've lost track of what my music taste is these days #tag game

[weaselle]

let's talk racist algorithms

i have a weird relationship with music for reasons i won't get into, but as an example, despite loving music, i have not been able to make myself listen to music on purpose in about 6 months. Music is weird for me. BUT I DO LOVE IT

I'm a poet, if i'm really feeling myself i'd even say i'm a word-smith, so rap has a really special place in my heart

The first rap artists i heard and bought an album from them on tape cassette and would listen to all the time were Snoop Dogg, McHammer, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince (that's Will Smith for you young ones) De La Soul, and Vanilla Ice

This was 7th and 8th grade. Rap was the new rock, the kids were going wild for it, and because my school let students select the lunchtime PA music, Vanilla Ice was played at lunch almost every day at school.

We had zero black students at that school.

(I still remember the exact day Vanilla Ice stopped being popular at school, but that's about the severe homophobia of the time and a different story)

Now let's come back to today. When I listen to music it's often on Youtube, or Pandora. And i noticed a problem with these platforms pretty early on.

See, I had taken a big break from rap. Like i said, i have a weird relationship to music i don't have time to get into, but i didn't pay much attention to what was happening in rap for a long time. I'd had a friend who was excited to get me to geek out over Eminem with her a few times, and i went through a phase where i was in love with Digable Planets (high key recommend if you like an indie feel with a smooth jazz sound and east coast vibes)... I had a secret love for that one verse by Left Eye in Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls, could sing every word of Shoop, and i adored every Missy Elliot song that i heard on the radio. And that was about it. As a lyricist myself, the one that stuck in my head the most from this time was eminem, because lyricism is his whole thing.

I don't go to concerts. I don't buy albums. I tend to like specific songs more than specific artists. I know, i know, but that's not the point. When i can listen to music without it fucking me up mentally, I listen to music on Youtube and Pandora

And lyricism is my main attraction to rap, so when i came back to it on Youtube I put in Eminem first.

And right away, Youtube started recommending other rappers to me. And very quickly, i discovered that i was being recommended mostly white rappers.

I really like Hopsin, I went through a Dumbfounddead phase, i was into Dax for a minute, i like Domo Wilson, the J. Cole songs i like I REALLY like, I'm obsessed with Snow tha Product, I love the first Janelle Monae album i heard, i still fangirl over Missy Elliot, it's no surprise i like Joyner Lucas...

All of these i discovered and listened to via Youtube.

But because i like eminem, because I had a phase where i enjoyed a couple indie artists like Watsky, Wax, and Dan Bull, and because my depressed ass was drawn to NF and now a little Ren, when Youtube recommends rap artists to me, 90% of the algorithm recommendations are white artists. White men, specifically.

I had a similar problem with Pandora.

I actually had to create a special Pandora station that i seeded with three black artists and then ONLY liked non-white artists AND disliked every white artists that came up, just to get a station that wouldn't turn itself into a white rap channel.

It makes me furious, because i don' want to care about who is a white artist and who is a black artist!!!! I just want to listen to music that i like!!! But these bullshit music platforms make me have to care a lot about who is white and who is black just to not be pushed into racist music tastes and i fucking hate it.

And, if i'm being super honest, one reason i really hate it is because i know i probably really do have some internal racist tendencies when it comes to music, because i was raised white in america, and i really resent having to fight these fucking algorithms instead of, idk, being helped by them. I need to be able to look at my feed and assess it for my own unacknowledged racism... like, if there was no algorithm, and i looked at my music history and saw all white artists, i could be like, OH. I need to look in the mirror about this. But instead i have to play this weird tug-a-war with the platform about it and i can't tell what's my own deficiency and what is being forced on me. But SOME of it is being forced on me.

I mean for fucks sake, Snow tha Product does half her lyrics in spanish and the algorithm sees me love her and STILL recommends mostly white men. Hundreds of hours of listening to her, and zero spanish artist recommendations. Its infuriating.

Anyway, if you're curating your music tastes mostly online, and you start with white artists at all, then you really really gotta work to not fall deep into the bias.

And if that's what's happening with the music, how much more insidious must the social commentary content bias be

#my life #racism #music #rap #hip hop #sexism #algorithms #social media

[burlveneer-music]

William Fields - quube

The limits of control. Turning the idea of 'limit' on its head - taking it as a generative, rather than a destructive approach. A dream that - if impossible to reach in human societies - has its natural space in algorithmic artistic practices. Here, paths can be created, drawn and followed on the borders of control - lines of code, functions, variables. William Fields' latest EP, quube - to appear in April 2024 on SØVN Records - traces pathways through this dream in four pieces that were recorded with the attitude of a dancer rather than that of a composer: following and constantly reinterpreting the performative flow. The music in quube, drawing from a relatively restricted palette of simple waves and minimal processing, is often exciting - conveying an urgency similar to the one which is felt in a free improv concert. It is not surprising, then, to learn that the four pieces were recorded as a live take, with no editing or overdubs. The flow of sounds becomes almost playful in its enthusiastic impatience, eager to cross the limits of control only to bounce back for another unexpected dance step. William Fields is an electronic musician from Philadelphia, USA, working from 30 years at the intersection between algorithmic composition and improvisation. His music has been described by the legendary Richard Devine as “some of the most mind-blowing algorithmically generated music I'd ever heard” and has been published by - among others - SUPERPANG, tokinogake, EVEL, 3OP.

#William Fields #electronic #algorithmic music #experimental #generative music #2024 #delaware #philadelphia #SØVN Records #Bandcamp

[cyber-corp]

Lately I’ve been leaning towards discovering new music through radio and music video stations, as they do a lot more in helping me find new music than streaming services ever did.

I think the problem is that streaming’s algorithmic nature leads to locking yourself into a comfort bubble with the same old playlists with the same old recommendations. “Made For You” playlists further lock you into that box as long as the songs get more streams.

Meanwhile, I watched Rage recently (the Australian equivalent of MTV) and it got me hooked on Reel Big Fish and Little Simz, two amazing artists I had no interest in before because I was never made aware of their music. I rediscovered The KLF through listening to Radio X on the RadioGarden app. Two mediums of listening to music known for constant repeats of popular songs have done more for me (in terms of finding music) than Spotify has ever done.

At the end of the day, all three still want your money, but Spotify wants your money by locking you in your comfort zone and all your “favourite playlists”.

#gecko boy #music #music streaming #spotify #mtv #radio #reel big fish #little simz #the klf #rage #dyk that rage is government funded? #isn’t that fun! #anyway fuck spotify #fuck algorithms #return to communal music video watching #radio garden

[prokopetz]

YouTube’s algorithm has decided that I really need to listen to the Passacaglia from George Frideric Handel’s Harpsichord Suite in G minor (HWV 432). It’s recommended me four different arrangements since 2 PM and shows no sign of stopping.

#media #music #youtube #george frideric handel #the algorithm

[eightyuh]

🖤🖤 EXPRESS YOURSELF by Black Dresses ♡♡ Vocaloid Hatsune Miku & Megurine Luka Cover

#black dresses #hatsune miku #megurine luka #vocaloid #vocal synth #my music #not my art #AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH IT'S HERE #this is a collab between me and 3 other artists !!! #plz consider giving the youtube upload a like or comment to help w the algorithm :“”D

[narcpocalypse]

HEYYY updated intro post!!

My artist name is FAUL (play on the word foul...idk it sounded icky I love it) but you can call me Giles! My pronouns are he/him but you can ask me for my neopronouns!

I am the creator of Crosshatch (The Musical) and my goal is to get accurate NPD representation in media. We need to work together to destigmatize and normalize our experiences and I want to do my part! I want ALL kinds of narcissists to feel seen in my work and hopefully, cross(hatch)ing my fingers that I'll educate others/have an impact so we don't have to tirelessly explain ourselves as much as we already do.

Crosshatch is going to be a long project and I hope you resonate with my work as it gets put out! Some other themes will be queerness, transness, HUGEEE themes of self harm and how it impacts narcs, etc.

Here are some specific tags I use in my posts (the tags will be used below the intro post so u can click whichever one u wanna check out!):

-(#crosshatch musical): for musical thoughts and updates!

-(#giles blabbers): me yapping :pp

-(#ask giles): answering asks!

-(#rad mutuals) supporting my mutuals art/thoughts/writing!

Here's my meet the artist thing :3

(Gasp... FACE REVEAL????/lh)

No DNI I'll just block you. Feel free to interact if you resonate with/like my posts/work!

#crosshatch musical #giles blabbers #ask giles #rad mutuals #npd tags for the algorithm LEAVE ME ALONE #npd #narcissist #narcissistic personality disorder #cluster b #npd safe #actually narcissistic #actually npd #cluster b safe #narcposting #actually cluster b

[philsjumpers]

look i try to be very deathtoirony noguilypleasures killthepartofuthatcringes etc but i gotta say the fact my spotify wrapped at the end of this year is gonna have all my usual small queer indie folk artists overthrown by fkin dan and phil beats feels like a bit of a hate crime. how am i supposed 2 post that on insta and still pretend i'm a cultured nearly-30 yr old adult. 'listen to it less then' well no that couldn't possibly be a solution actually-

#it's suffering hours for the adhd gays who like beats music to focus to but usually keep it outta their algorithm :// #dan and phil #dnp #dan and phil beats