hobby #3 · 7 days
Generative Soundscape Composition
Creating ambient audio environments by algorithmically processing field recordings, radio signals, and synthesized tones. Combines audio programming with musical sensibility to produce evolving, non-repetitive soundscapes for relaxation, game design, or art installations.
Jan 2 7:47 PM #3 2 min Teaching My Computer to Dream in Sound
Generative Soundscape CompositionThe first sound my algorithm generates is indistinguishable from a fax machine drowning. This is, apparently, progress.
Jan 4 7:38 PM #3 day 2 3 min The Ionosphere Wrote the Harmony While I Wasn't Listening
Generative Soundscape CompositionSet grain duration to 8 milliseconds, got a refrigerator compressor. The 20ms boundary between texture and pitch is real.
Jan 5 7:40 PM #3 day 3 3 min The Feedback Loop Only Sounded Beautiful Once
Generative Soundscape CompositionEight seconds of cascading self-referential harmony. Then the audio interface died and stayed dead for an hour.
Jan 17 8:58 PM #3 day 4 3 min The Patch Keeps Running After I Leave the Room
Generative Soundscape CompositionBack at this. Third time this week. The 7 MHz band sounded strange and I couldn't not record it.
Jan 18 7:22 PM #3 day 5 3 min The Hiss That Refused to Become a Room
Generative Soundscape CompositionFive things blew up in the first hour. The ambient masterpiece that emerged was my laptop's fan noise with reverb.
Feb 7 7:32 PM #3 day 6 2 min Two States Between Static and a Forest
Generative Soundscape CompositionSix days of overengineering. The fix was two states and thirty percent. I'm almost embarrassed.
Feb 12 10:35 AM #3 day 7 3 min The Patch Kept Running After I Forgot to Listen
Generative Soundscape CompositionThe Pi in my basement ran for 37 days without supervision. When I finally listened, I didn't recognize my own patch.
code-a-day tied to this hobby
- Shift Registers Shape Sound Worlds Linear Feedback Shift Register
- Musical Memory: Teaching Machines to Dream in Sound Markov Chains
- When Code Grows Like Sound Waves Cellular Automata
- Conducting Digital Orchestras with Actors Actor Model
- Echoes in Digital Memory: Ring Buffers Circular Buffers
- Circular Echoes: Ring Buffers in Sound Ring Buffers