Revised Concept – Algorithmic Composition
I am fairly set on my first idea with algorithmic composition. I feel like the scope can be small or widened, depending on the progress I make.
Here are some of the responses I have to comments that came up:
Parsing the music will be hard – My idea for this is to transcribe the songs into MIDI sheet music, so that my program can take that as input. While it would be cool to have actual audio parsed, I agree that that would take too much work.
Possibly beyond the scope of time – I feel confident that I can start small and build up as much as I can. I have already started a bit of work on this idea in my free time, so I have a feel for the challenge and how long it might take.
Incorporating aspects of Idea 2 into this idea – I think this is definitely a cool idea! I could use vaporwave songs to generate new vaporwave songs. The only tricky bit I see with this is that some aspects of vaporwave can be glitchy sounding, which is more of an audio thing that can’t be transcribed into audio. For example, it might pitch shift a semitone off a normal key.
Instead of that, maybe I could use the visual aspect from Idea 2. The only question I see with that is whether or not the visuals would be generated on-the-spot, too. If they would be, I would have to see how much work would go into that, because I do not have the background to really know right now.
Here’s some ways I was thinking you could incorporate aspects of Idea 2 into your project. Maybe the program could play the piece it automatically composed, but if you toggle an option it could change the effects parameters and tempo to make it sound more like vaporwave.
Here’s some ways I was thinking you could incorporate aspects of Idea 2 into your project. Maybe the program could play the piece it automatically composed, but if you toggle an option it could change the effects parameters and tempo to make it sound more like vaporwave.
I don’t know a lot about math or music but I know what you’re talking about is definitely possible. I’ve seen videos of a.i that are able to write sentences that are similar to input text that they’re given. I’m sure you could do something similar with music and it would end up being really cool wherever you got. You might want to look a little into a.i learning if you didn’t yet.