Name: Win-hop by Luke Vorster
Duration: 28 s
Description: This is not my track, though I have made a couple of a similar nature... this one just gets my absolute respect 'cos I couldn't have done it better myself. The samples are taken from microsoft windows sound effects, so all rights are owed to them...

Are computers capable of creativity? This track is an extension of the demo of my latest musicology research - the entire saxophone and piano solos in this track were generated automatically by a program I developed called 'IMPI', which stands for (IMP)rov(I)sational Intelligence.

It's an old sounding Jazz track, similar to the BeBop genre.

Enjoy, and comment if you think it sounds like something you would expect from a computer.

IMPI Demo II

Playing around with African poly-rhythms and "naturally" occurring resonance - the 'angelic choir' in the last section is purely a resonant spinoff: no instruments or voices are explicitly making those 'melodies' or 'harmonies'.... i.e. were I to change the tuning system, or reverberation/resonant-filter settings they would a) disappear, or b) sing something else.... (Same goes for the way the poly-rhythms interact with the second and third 4/4 beat)

Interesting how such disparate tuning and rhythmic metrics are so compatible via reverberation and resonance filters....

01 Hybridrone

This is not my track, though I have made a couple of a similar nature... this one just gets my absolute respect 'cos I couldn't have done it better myself. The samples are taken from microsoft windows sound effects, so all rights are owed to them...

Win-hop

Luke Vorster

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