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Generative breakcore (?)

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 6:25 am
by etruscan
Put together a PyBuzz script that parses beats that I program into Matilde tracker, analyses them for a kind of syntax, cooks up some stats, and uses these to spit out its own beats. This is something that came out:

https://soundcloud.com/fractalsupremacy/revenant

:ugeek: :geek: :ugeek:

Re: Generative breakcore (?)

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 1:31 pm
by ags
Awesome wizard skillz.

Re: Generative breakcore (?)

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 4:08 pm
by magmavander
liked and reposted :dance:

Re: Generative breakcore (?)

Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 4:13 am
by szaszhareen
wicked. take that aphex twin! XD

so this is all generative? or did you arrange some of it?

could you share the script? :geek:

Re: Generative breakcore (?)

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 5:08 am
by etruscan
szaszhareen wrote:so this is all generative? or did you arrange some of it?
Strictly speaking, it's all arranged. The script learns one or more programmed patterns (consisting of drum samples and bass samples); thereafter it is a tool for generating similar-sounding variations in a random-but-controlled fashion using random number seeding. (And teaching it new patterns on the fly, and making variations on those, and so on.) It's lots of fun to make 'complex' beats with lots of variations but I found the process of doing so exhausting and more taxing than enjoyable. I thought it would be fun to design a way to generate variations 'syntactically'. (I got old and lost my mojo.)

(The pads etc. are arranged - no generation-ness there.)
szaszhareen wrote:could you share the script? :geek:
Hey man, I spent months writing the script so I could justify being lazy to myself, and my ego is precariously balanced on it! I can't let go now :lol:

Re: Generative breakcore (?)

Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2014 9:02 pm
by DJ Saint-Hubert
I prefer creating generative sounds through modular trickery, or arranging by hand and trying to abstract it in my mind to the point the patterns themselves look interesting. Like eventually I will be able to translate my thoughts directly into binary code. I also do a lot of trickery with polymeters/polyrhythms to make the song sound more complex than it really is?

Re: Generative breakcore (?)

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 10:44 pm
by etruscan
Sounds interesting man, can you point me to some examples? :dance: