In the above sound example, I created a simple three-track mix featuring a pad, a keys sound, and a lead type of sound. Other sliders like “Chord Depth” control the chance that musical intervals will be taken among chordal changes. Wotja: Generative Musicįor example, sliders in a group called “Phrase Gap” control the duration in seconds between musical phrases. In a future post, we’ll look at tools for tablet devices that introduce tactile feel to a seemingly two-dimensional world. What tools are out there, on a personal computer, that allow us to “create” generative music? Below, we’ll explore them. Let’s flip the logic back to us, the creators.
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In a weird way, as music has become increasingly piped into our world via algorithms, generative music software seems more “natural” to comprehend for anyone entirely alien to the music creation process itself.
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In my opinion, generative music software is better at explaining how to construct music to the self-taught musician than reams of musical theory. Generative music software that we’ll first explore on the PC, reexamines how we look at music, taking it apart so that one can truly mine their interfaces for new ideas. There is something inherently provocative about understanding the ins and outs (at least superficially) of things that even people who create the software are struggling to understand. Trust me, it’s sexy to discover things that are truly out of your control. Maybe to get us out of a rut, or to use as a base from which to build, or maybe to let the thing do its thing and truly surprise you.
– Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, From Oblique StrategiesĪs we’ll discover, generative music software is comprised of tools that we can use to spur our own creativity. Let’s find the ghost in the machine.Ĭluster analysis. In Beat Connection, we’ve explored how to take the reins of your music. I mean, what’s so sexy about losing creative control? This is what generative music forces you to grapple with: letting the machines make music for you. As I wrote the title of this post, I suddenly realized: “There is nothing sexy about the words “generative music.” Just hearing them places you in the land of people in lab coats, looking at Matrix-like code, and listening to really unmusical, experimental music.Īfter you know what generative music is (see: prior post covering its definition), you might feel pangs of anger, confusion, and befuddlement.
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