Comments on: The music of the primes http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/the-music-of-the-primes.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 07:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Boundegar http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/the-music-of-the-primes.html#comment-1551733 Boundegar Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=185773#comment-1551733 It's not torture, it's enhanced interrogation, citizen. It’s not torture, it’s enhanced interrogation, citizen.

]]> By: batchild http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/the-music-of-the-primes.html#comment-1551647 batchild Mon, 08 Oct 2012 23:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=185773#comment-1551647 My son was so very disappointed this wasn't Chocolate Rain. My son was so very disappointed this wasn’t Chocolate Rain.

]]> By: spacecoastweb http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/the-music-of-the-primes.html#comment-1551235 spacecoastweb Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=185773#comment-1551235 I've long been interested in mathematically generated music.About 12 or 13 years ago I found a cool little freeware program that creates midi files based on a mathematical sequence related to the Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence. The human ear finds self-similarity pleasing, so the Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence and related sequences seem to be good candidates for music generation. The complexity of this generated music, (when several sequences are mapped to different instruments and played alongside one another), is astounding. MusiNum - The Music in the Numbers http://reglos.de/musinum/ I’ve long been interested in mathematically generated music.About 12 or 13 years ago I found a cool little freeware program that creates midi files based on a mathematical sequence related to the Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence.

The human ear finds self-similarity pleasing, so the Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence and related sequences seem to be good candidates for music generation. The complexity of this generated music, (when several sequences are mapped to different instruments and played alongside one another), is astounding.

MusiNum – The Music in the Numbers http://reglos.de/musinum/

]]> By: Robert Holmén http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/the-music-of-the-primes.html#comment-1551228 Robert Holmén Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=185773#comment-1551228  Interesting... but not for long. The one time I got an "A" as a music composition student at the U of North Texas was for my procedural music program for a Commodore-64: http://youtu.be/Qa1EyMyNbgo My professor was gobsmacked that I was doing something with my C-64 that he couldn't do with his $10,000 "Synclavier".  That's when i decided to stop "studying" composition.  Interesting… but not for long.

The one time I got an “A” as a music composition student at the U of North Texas was for my procedural music program for a Commodore-64:

http://youtu.be/Qa1EyMyNbgo

My professor was gobsmacked that I was doing something with my C-64 that he couldn’t do with his $10,000 “Synclavier”.  That’s when i decided to stop “studying” composition.

]]> By: Jay Converse http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/the-music-of-the-primes.html#comment-1551207 Jay Converse Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:15:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=185773#comment-1551207 So the high G# is the only variable note?  I don't get it So the high G# is the only variable note?  I don’t get it

]]> By: gluther http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/the-music-of-the-primes.html#comment-1551192 gluther Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:58:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=185773#comment-1551192 sounds a bit like Hauschka. http://hauschka-net.de/.  sounds a bit like Hauschka. http://hauschka-net.de/. 

]]> By: s2redux http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/the-music-of-the-primes.html#comment-1551188 s2redux Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=185773#comment-1551188 Keith Jarrett — <i>The M.I.T. Concert</i> Keith Jarrett — The M.I.T. Concert

]]> By: Paul Renault http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/the-music-of-the-primes.html#comment-1551187 Paul Renault Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:52:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=185773#comment-1551187 I find this more pleasing than almost all of Webern's Variations.  I could listen to it for quite a while.  Twenty-six hours, you say? Mind you, I'd rather listen to Tenney's Ergodos II than Vebern.  Maybe if I'd been born in continental Europe, my tastes would be, er, educated?, conforming to expectations?  I find Vebern to be the auditory equivalent of Stieglitz's Equivalents.  More on that later... Here's one I wish would go on for half an hour, Euler's Samba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q75IbP6wvP0 I find this more pleasing than almost all of Webern’s Variations.  I could listen to it for quite a while.  Twenty-six hours, you say?

Mind you, I’d rather listen to Tenney’s Ergodos II than Vebern.  Maybe if I’d been born in continental Europe, my tastes would be, er, educated?, conforming to expectations?  I find Vebern to be the auditory equivalent of Stieglitz’s Equivalents.  More on that later…

Here’s one I wish would go on for half an hour, Euler’s Samba:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q75IbP6wvP0

]]> By: 10xor01 http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/the-music-of-the-primes.html#comment-1551181 10xor01 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:44:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=185773#comment-1551181 <i>26 hours long</i> Don't let the CIA find out about this. 26 hours long

Don’t let the CIA find out about this.

]]> By: awjt http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/the-music-of-the-primes.html#comment-1551179 awjt Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:41:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=185773#comment-1551179 Dangit, I was hoping for an explainer, to see what they did. Dangit, I was hoping for an explainer, to see what they did.

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