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Welcome to 'The DarwinTunes Brood Vol.2'

Vol.1 has now reached 1 hour 30 minutes, a nice length to close out the playlist.  Vol.1 can be heard here: http://soundcloud.com/jsmcpn/sets/the-darwintunes-brood

These "DarwinTracks" consist of 4-bar loops generated as a result of selective breeding / natural selection on a game called DarwinTunes. Please visit and play, DarwinTunes' gene pool gets very shallow when not enough people participate! game.darwintunes.org

I encourage you to try making a DarwinTrack, I think you'll discover the software to be much more than it seems at first glance. Thank you!


The DarwinTunes Brood Vol.2

Automagically* generated 24-loop medleys providing monthly snapshots of the DarwinTunes 2.0 music breeding game.

Self-organizing maps cluster the loops into a sensible order.  Ideally each loop should be played twice, but then they would take twice as long to listen to...

DarwinTunes - Start - Of - May - 2014

Created at http://game.darwintunes.org  -  

Crunchy!

DarwinTrack #015

Created at http://game.darwintunes.org  -  

Experimenting with some regular loops, an some that appear to have an internal offset. ?  These are consecutive offspring except one re-used near the end.

DarwinTrack #016 (Feat. my_darwintunes_loop_83c75a30.wav)

Created at http://game.darwintunes.org  -  

This one re-uses many loops, kind of hit a dead-end.

DarwinTrack #017

Created at http://game.darwintunes.org  -  

A number of re-used loops were played back to back and some in alternating order.

DarwinTrack #018

Created at http://game.darwintunes.org  -  
af032fe0,249d6601,32d838c9,af032fe0,f1a19688,7c8a69a2,ae8384ff,a50d7c23,40569b14,
7022f4cf,b916469b,c1699cd3,87f62016,01991cc8,a93e039f,9be6875a,79533a62,79533a62,
81f029d2,848f98f6,7cc1b43a,0dbc5fc6,7b26f136,0de3d48c,3b718e4e,fdc3ce56,d6e7cb28,
d6e7cb28,7052ca8e,d7113196,fb9bf6df,dd02a57f,7ec42dd3,d805be96,ee30867a,474a007a,
6a24e01c,a8567ff9,5fb9fad4,2c452d9a,b969cf46,02b9820,7930a2c3,8586bb01,8586bb01,
8586bb01

DarwinTrack #019 (Redone)

thx 2 nuriats and DerDude, your loops were essential !!!

DarwinTrack #024

DarwinTrack #026

Dr Bob MacCallum from Imperial College London describes the DarwinTunes experiment and its results delivered in classic Open University style.

DarwinTunes - evolution of music commentary

For the first time we have made a medley completely automatically (previously, loops were picked by Bob for the medleys).  For each 100 generation period a consistently highly rated loop (across multiple raters) is chosen by a simple confidence interval-based statistic.  Most loops scored more than 4 (I like it) on average.  Reply to the timed comments if you would like more detailed statistics for particular loops.  Homologous recombination was enabled from around 3300 generations.