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February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]
February 9, 2025In April 2005, I registered a domain name. I had a plan, and it was an ambitious one. I had read an O’Reilly book on XML (cover-to-cover) a couple of years beforehand, and it did something to my brain and I thought I could see through time. Weblogs were ascending fast, the web was exciting, … [Read more …] [...]

Chinwag Posts

It's really, really hard to find examples of people doing generative music that aren't using LLMs, I tell you.

We're rocking it old school here, and writing out MIDI files from our "random" numbers.

For a side project that's been kicking around in my head, I want to generate music from environmental inputs.

Today is the first time things have been actually listenable to some degree, and most of the tunable options are hooked up now. There's a long way to go however.

The seed value for my test track here is "42".