Making AI Musicians

Thank you to Terry Riley for making such awesome music!
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• Full code walkthrough: vimeo.com/127465784
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Handy timestamps:
00:00 Overview
01:52 Software
05:44 Hardware
07:09 Final remarks
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[@NegativeFeedback]

This was great friend

[@WhiteNoises]

Thanking you kindly pal!

[@joefrey2866]

Awesome and wonderful! Thanks.

[@MumboMoose]

I go to the same university and saw this piece when it was shown in the end of year exhibition, great work!

[@WhiteNoises]

Ah cheers! Glad you liked it :)

[@LawrenceBall]

bravo for extending Terry's legacy boldly, bravo for your thematic tasks in exploring creative innovative adventures......

[@Chareads]

Awesome video Greg! Cool to hear more about your proj

[@WhiteNoises]

+Chareads thanks Charlotte!!

[@MatthewRayfield]

Really awesome stuff dude ! Subbed : ]

[@philippfromme9427]

Love it!

[@AtreyusHorse]

lovely! im really into this polyrythm harmonic thinking stuff as well since I made a test idea with different midi clips with different patterns and length in ableton. im trying to force my brain to play on piano like this but it feels like my brain literally will blow hahaha. thanks for the video 🙏

[@WhiteNoises]

Cheers man! Hahah yes I think playing stuff like this on piano would be VERY difficult. But worth it! I'd like to develop more Steve Reich-esque phasing polyrhythm stuff on my modular, think that would be great!

[@dongweilee923]

Reminds me of Earl Brown and Stockhausen, very good。

[@fuzzymarble]

fantastic stuff

[@audioneiromancer2790]

Really interesting! I'd be keen to see/hear any examples of the installation, or a performance more generally. It's definitely a challenging take on the piece, but an entirely valid one. Also - the title is justification alone - gotta love a pun!

[@WhiteNoises]

Thank you very much! Glad you appreciate the pun :) This link will take you to everything I have about In C++, including a full stereo mixdown of a performance and longer videos demonstrating the different instruments I played about with: www.gregory-white.co.uk/incplusplus

[@fosferus]

This was really good fun! Congrats on this cool project. Your remarks freaked me out a bit... Reducing the human component of music creation to a computer algorithm is a an unnerving thought.

[@WhiteNoises]

Thanks! Haha yeah it can be a bit scary! The way I look at it though, creating the algorithm is a method of artistic expression in itself - creating a system that creates the music. So I guess we’re safe until computers can do that...which they actually starting to do now 😱 but that’s really cool and creative in its own way too haha

[@fosferus]

true, true. it is how i love to patch the modular.. set up a range of potential things to happen, then set the conditions for potential pathways to occur and let the thing play itself.

[@MrFlatlandcycle]

People interested in this sort of thing should have a look at Paul Stoffregen's teency audio board.

[@davecole0]

Very cool!

[@PaulJBurns]

Excellent.

[@Sound8VisionVibe]

In C++...That is GENIUS

[@bxp_bass]

Ah, yes, subscribed to your channel. Seems, I've found some very interesting stuff!

[@Snuckyfication]

You are great!

[@chatolars]

brilliant.

[@Perspectologist]

This was awesome. Very cool project. That you for sharing this with us. I took a quick look at the introduction on your website but haven't dove in too deeply yet. I wonder what determined the number of hardware units you used. Can each Pi board support multiple players or just one? Was that constraint determined by hardware limitations or different design considerations (such as to make a more clear analogy of the boards as players and to allow for different spatial placement)?

[@girlinagale]

Fascinating work, I didn't know In C was written like this. I hope you got a first class degree because your approach is deeply intelligent.

[@WhiteNoises]

Thank you very much! (And I did! 🎉)

[@girlinagale]

White Noises I'm pleased and subscribed to get more information about synthesis.

[@oddObjekt]

Could you do something like this in a rack with something like Branches? Have different voices play the trunk and then different branches at random?

[@bleepinnbloopin1175]

Really amazing! What program was your master's degree in?

[@imperfektionist18]

I f**king love you! 😻

[@allanmlxu]

bruh this is sick

[@WhiteNoises]

Thanks bud! Hope you're good

[@bxp_bass]

As a software engineer I've found this experiment very interesting. Love nerdy technological music! Also, nothing bad if new genre of music appears like "AI music". Good if it will be always just one of music forms, but - this is important - people are lazy, what if industry decide that music theory and human composers are obsolete, because it takes too much work to learn music and record live instruments. Why we need human if AI could make all work in couple of hours - OST's, cinematics, etc? Then, composers with std notation could be pushed to the underground and labeled as "music Luddites". But, people love to listen to other people voices, creativity and ideas (even if it much simpler, with lower quality and requires years of work), that's why Tangerine Dream and then electronic music not killed live music. And this thought is quite consolatory. But... who knows? I don't believe in utopia or dystopia, because people are not so stupid in general, but it's nervous anyway.

[@vinylarchaeologist]

NOT here from @DavidBruceComposer, although I’m a follower :) Great video!

[@TheFourteenthWard]

that's cool

[@WhiteNoises]

Cheers!!

[@leonidhindenburg1039]

i hope there is a chance that Terry will hear it himself

[@DanielRDehaan]

Beautifully executed. Where are/did you get your masters and in what?

[@WhiteNoises]

Thanks very much! I did my MA in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London :)

[@charliereynolds]

Hey Greg got any spare speaker hole coasters

[@WhiteNoises]

I do actually, might start selling them as "Artisanal Laser-crafted British Wood Coasters" for 1000x the price

[@musadiness1]

Interesting but I don’t see how you used AI for this though..

[@dilpickle7395]

People like jake paul get all the fame and support even when he is mean and just bad in general, when channels like White noises get very little... i dont get it

[@Perspectologist]

This was awesome. Very cool project. That you for sharing this with us. I took a quick look at the introduction on your website but haven't dove in too deeply yet. I wonder what determined the number of hardware units you used. Can each Pi board support multiple players or just one? Was that constraint determined by hardware limitations or different design considerations (such as to make a more clear analogy of the boards as players and to allow for different spatial placement)?

[@WhiteNoises]

Thanks very much! Glad you liked it. Each of the wooden panels and components mounted to it represented one virtual performer -- for example, a marimba player, or a cellist. The number of these "performers" was dictated entirely be financial cost! I'd love to be able to do the installation with like, 30 performers all in one room. I think it'd be great!