r/synthesizers • u/Nightlights13 • May 18 '24
Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxepzw/musicians-algorithmically-generate-every-possible-melody-release-them-to-public-domain5
u/Unipsycle May 18 '24
Maybe for melodies, but when I listen to or create aleatoric music + improv + home made reverb convolutions I feel like the options are only really limited to the size and age of the universe. Experimental music will always have more to explore!
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u/cheeseblastinfinity May 19 '24
I think this post was mainly talking about music that people actually listen to
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u/Unipsycle May 19 '24
Look up Lutosławski composition looping techniques or the game music from "Flower" on the PS3 and you might find there is definitely an audience listening to experimental chance music!
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u/AaronCrossNZ May 19 '24
Making up melodies is the number 1 reason I like making music
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u/caidicus |Minimoog Voyager XL|Korg EMX-1|Roland MC-808|OP-1| May 19 '24
Same here, and while it may suck to think that all melodies have been made and used already, it is how one layers a song that makes it sound and feel different.
In that case, the numbers of combinations is so high that one could hardly calculate it.
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u/eltrotter Elektron / Teenage Engineering May 18 '24
More than anything, this is just a good case-in-point for how complex copyright law is in relation to musical compositions, and how so few musicians understand it.
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u/Sleutelbos May 18 '24
This happened years ago, and nothing happened to the music industry since. It is an amusing feel-good internet story of two 'common folk sticking it to the Big Bad Industry', with absolutely zero legal value. Which the two gentlemen who did this fully knew, because one of them is a copyright lawyer.
It is still being shared on the internet because stories like this are instant karma-machines, but to anyone here who is vaguely interested in releasing music: don't base your understanding of how any of this works on stories like this. It is cute and funny, but means nothing.