Jellymatter

Is it okay to post art on a science blog? Well this is kind of science, so I guess it’s kind of okay.

Here is a litte piece of computer-generated music that I created yesterday:

As Twitter user @DanieleTatti noted, it sounds like a sort of Scottish raga. But what I wanted to post about was the algorithm used to generate that ever changing sequence of pitches and warbles. It’s quite a simple idea – simple enough in fact that the whole piece is generated by the following 140 characters of SuperCollider code:

play{ar(r=RLPF,Saw.ar([200,302]).mean,5**(n={LFNoise1.kr(1/8)})*1e3,0.6)
+r.ar(Saw ar:Amplitude.kr(3**n*3e3*InFeedback.ar(0)+1,4,4),1e3)/5!2}