Remember Wolfram? No? Don’t feel bad about it. These people aren’t famed for their music but rather for their Mathematica software. Now they’ve come up with something pretty neat though, proving that music is indeed math.
Wolfram Tones generates music and pretty pictures (like the one above) from a bunch of algorithms also found in Mathematica or as they put it themselves:
WolframTones works by taking simple programs from Wolfram’s computational universe, and using music theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world, with its own special story–and WolframTones captures it as a musical composition.
It’s all original music–fresh from “mining” Wolfram’s computational universe. Sometimes it’s reminiscent of familiar musical styles; sometimes it’s like nothing ever heard before. It’s a taste of what it’s like to explore the computational universe–and a hint of what’s to come…
So basicly you set tempo, tonality and select an algorithm as well as a bunch of other parameters and see what comes out. You can play back “your” composition and change the instruments or parts played. But that’s not the really fun part. The really fun part is the fact that you can have Tones mail you your generated thingy in MIDI format. And MIDI we have a 1001 uses for…
So head on over to check it out.
