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Earslap
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Earslap is a personal blog at earslap.com about programming and culture. Since 2011, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times, most often “Recreating the THX Deep Note”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Procedural music, art, computation and some other things.
Most-linked posts?
- Recreating the THX Deep Note3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-10-07
- Recreating the THX Deep Note3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-05-27
- Recreating the THX Deep Note (2009)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-09-26
- Cellular Automaton Music Generator2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-16
- /page/otomata.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-20
What Hacker News says?
It reminds me "Generative Music Otomata" http://www.earslap.com/page/otomata.html
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on “Get started making music”Submitted Cellular Automaton Music Generator as a story · 299 points
HN discussionIf we're going about reinventing the wheel see this excellent post from your forebearers: http://www.earslap.com/instruction/recreating-the-thx-deep-n... And discussion from a few years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=725564 Don't miss their Deep Note SuperCollider one-liner at the end: "play{Mix({|k|k=k+1/2;2/k Mix({|i|i=i+1;Blip.ar(i XLine.kr(rand(2e2,4e2),87+LFNoise2.k"
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on “The THX Sound”Submitted Recreating the THX Deep Note (2009) as a story · 193 points
HN discussionSince only half the links work, here is Deep Note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYMpMcmpfkI and here is work on recreating it with SuperCollider: http://www.earslap.com/instruction/recreating-the-thx-deep-n...
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on “The THX Sound”Submitted Recreating the THX Deep Note as a story · 173 points
HN discussionI am surprised no one mentioned otomata: https://earslap.com/page/otomata.html
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on “Show HN: Billard – Generate music from ball collisions in 2D space”Submitted Circuli: A game like ambient music generator as a story · 19 points
HN discussionhttp://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=0q0q8r8r8888070... another interesting one visually and acoustically
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on “Cellular Automaton Music Generator”Submitted Recreating the THX Deep Note as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttp://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=0q0q8r8r8888070... an otherwise impossible to construct (i suspect) beat.
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on “Cellular Automaton Music Generator”Submitted Recreating the THX Deep Note (2009) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttp://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=0q2q4q6q8q0z2z4... made this one by playing with the url itself. interesting format, each note is two characters describing X position and Y+direction it looks like so XYXYXYXY. I built a table of the Y, the X are just 0 indexed numbers ^>v< 0 qwer 1 tyui 2 opas 3 dfgh 4 jklz 5 xcvb 6 nm01 7 2345 8 6789
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on “Cellular Automaton Music Generator”Submitted Otomata – Online Generative Music Instrument as a story · 2 points
HN discussionOn my setup it sounds better if I don't have too many notes going off on the same beat. Try: http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=0o1l2a3t584x6v72 to see what I mean
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on “Cellular Automaton Music Generator”Submitted Recreating the THX Deep Note (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=8k1q5q6k
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on “Cellular Automaton Music Generator”Submitted Recreating the THX Deep Note (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=025q511184446t5j22
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on “Cellular Automaton Music Generator”Submitted Recreating the THX Deep Note as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=2e3e4e5e6e7u8s8h8z... Making things not only auditory appealing but visually appealing also. This one has some interesting patterns.
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on “Cellular Automaton Music Generator”If the grid is numbered 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ... I had to investigate the primes Primes less than 20 all up: http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=1q2q4q6q1t3t7t all right: http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=1w2w4w6w1y3y7y all left: http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=1r2r4r6r1i3i7i all primes up : http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=1q2q4q6q1t3t7t0o4o... all right : http://earslap.com/p…
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on “Cellular Automaton Music Generator”http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=8g804u08022p4q4s I like this one because the two left-right components switch the period of the beat on the 5th and 9th rows (themselves also alternating pitch and period) while not breaking the base beat. I do with the "make link" would let you 'bookmark' a phase: the way it started out went through some cool sequences before stabilizing into this.
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on “Cellular Automaton Music Generator”A surprisingly short loop: http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=3z3o43503s and some lame attempt at "chaos": http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=1h4o2n (though of course these are just finite state machines and they all loop eventually)
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on “Cellular Automaton Music Generator”That one is excellent - visually as well as auditorily pleasing. In terms of interesting evolution I keep coming back to this one I just sort of randomly put together: http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=04046g043q515p3...
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on “Cellular Automaton Music Generator”http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=06122n3x4j5d6o7t8q... Very fun!
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on “Cellular Automaton Music Generator”What a beautiful and fun idea. Here's one I did that develops really nicely. http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=062m4l6s8q2p610...
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on “Cellular Automaton Music Generator”And another: http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=0q0o88801y1f7b7...
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on “Cellular Automaton Music Generator”This is quite fun to play around with! Many of the other CA-based music generators I've seen have sounded rather atonal and random compared to this one. Here's one I made using symmetric initial conditions (doing this makes for somewhat interesting visual patterns as well): http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=0q1q2q3q8w8y8p8...
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on “Cellular Automaton Music Generator”This was very interesting, look what I made after 5 mins of tinkering: http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=06020n0j89796949
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on “Cellular Automaton Music Generator”
