An Experiment in A New Kind of Music

waynegoode writes "Stephen Wolfram's Wolfram Research has produced an new application: WolframTones-- 'An Experiment in A New Kind of Music'. It combines the principles in Stephen's book, 'A New Kind of Science' and Mathematica to 'instantly create unique music' in many different styles. They describe it as pretty neat as well as being scientifically interesting, and useful. After listening to some compositions and creating a few random ones myself, I must agree that it is. And anyone who has listen to the radio the last few years could certainly use some unique music."

Just what we need.

[megrims]

More unique (and irritating) ringtones!

The New Wolfram Cosmo

[Anonymous Coward]

Copernicus debunked: The universe actually revolves around Stephen Wolfram's ass.

Oh Boy

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Kraftwerk is gonna be pissed.

A new kind of crap

[Anonymous Coward]

This is crap, not music. I could make better music by repeatedly smashing your face into a piano.

Kill Ugly Radio - Frank Zappa

[Anonymous Coward]

      A doctor, an architect, and a computer scientist were arguing about
whose profession was the oldest. In the course of their arguments, they
got all the way back to the Garden of Eden, whereupon the doctor said, "The
medical profession is clearly the oldest, because Eve was made from Adam's
rib, as the story goes, and that was a simply incredible surgical feat."
        The architect did not agree. He said, "But if you look at the Garden
itself, in the beginning there was chaos and void, and out of that the Garden
and the world were created. So God must have been an architect."
        The computer scientist, who'd listened carefully to all of this, then
commented, "Yes, but where do you think the chaos came from?"

Ah...Sorry.

[joetheappleguy]

I'm going back to the radio. I can just fire up an old Nintendo to get this kind of "music"

This sounds awfully familiar.

[Anonymous Coward]

"I staggered back in the dark, without the means of striking a light, crashing against the table, overturning a chair, and finally groping my way to the place where the blackness screamed with shocking music. To save myself and Erich Zann I could at least try, whatever the powers opposed to me. Once I thought some chill thing brushed me, and I screamed, but my scream could not be heard above that hideous viol. Suddenly out of the blackness the madly sawing bow struck me, and I knew I was close to the player. I felt ahead, touched the back of Zann's chair, and then found and shook his shoulder in an effort to bring him to his senses." --H.P. Lovecraft, The Music of Erich Zann

Don't click anything.... or pay me a fee!

[deft]

Yeah, thats right, I'm creating a bot to click every button, and taking each output, emailing it to myself, and copyrighting it.

I figure in a year or so I should have just about everything either copywritten, or at least something close enough I can sue everyone.

I'm also working at buying the rights to the word "stealth".

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Don't insult Nintendo...

[Ogemaniac]

I haven't touched one in years, and I still catch myself humming the most random Nintendo tunes.

I don't know which is worse - still being able to hum the tune during the "Game Over" screen from Super Mario Brothers 2, or still knowing that the tune is from SMB2.

Someone needs to invent a miracle pill that clears all this garbage out of our brains, so we can work on a cure for cancer or something else important with the newly-freed space.

Re:How long before the trademarks come out?

[efuseekay]

I will get interested if they come up with "A New Kind of Sex".

Now, that's something I'll pay to read/watch/partake....

  unless of course we have Wolfram himself as main actor.

Re: Wolfram

[Anonymous Coward]

Your post sounds like jealously of an obviously talented genious.

If you want to assert that you know genius, it would probably be a good first step to spell the word correctly.

Re:Just what we need.

[WolfWithoutAClause]

Yeah, but atleast it doesn't have a tiny penis, look like a frog and go broom broom. Trust me, this is better.

Hmm...

[Zx-man]

Mix this with some computer generated lyrics [google.com], a text-to-speech [google.com] system, and go rock the Top 100's!

Re:All right overall

[yfkar]

From the music I hear on radio I think that the industry already has an automatic music generator. ;)

Re:A new kind of crap

[ettlz]

Karlheinz Stockhausen has been doing that for years.

Re: Wolfram

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Re:All right overall

[krymsin01]

Your mother was a toaster.

that's interesting

[gabba_gabba_hey]

But I liked this [cornell.edu] better :)

Re: Wolfram

[harlows_monkeys]

He has a tendency to toot his own horn

Well, isn't that appropriate for a music application?