brainstorms

Monday September 12, 2005

wolfram tones [bingley bingley beep]

ah, those splendid yet boring sounds of cellular automata. wolframtones is an experiment in a supposed new kind of music. pretty interface, but i do not know what to make of the results; thus far everything that has been generated for me from wolfram's computational universe [tm] sounds remarkably similar to the music i had heard during mid-eighties from various energetic computer music experiments at york university and ryerson. [i spent quite a bit of time listening to those experiments in stochastic music - i was in computer science and also an electronic music dj for radio york] so far as i can tell, the only thing that is different from what i heard in the past is the level of aggrandizement. [this is new kind of science and new kind of music. see faqs]

related listening: oscar sala, elektronische impressionen [i do not know if any of sala's works have been issued in cd form. i have this as an lp]

[wolframtones noise and this new kind of science stuff reminds me of the great mark twain quote: Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.]