Originally intended as a backing track, for a project currently dormant...

Rainbow Smudge

An ambient generative music piece created with Scape. Audio elements and programming by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers; elemental choices by me.

Scape 12

Scape 9

Scape 14

An ambient generative music piece created with Koan Pro in late July 1997. The instruments are from a Yamaha DB50XG daughterboard affixed to a SoundBlaster AWE card. This was an increasingly noisy combination as the years passed; I have removed as much of the hiss as possible but some interference is audible in the quieter parts.

Late July

Agreement

It's getting on for two in the morning. A crystal glass tumbler that has seen more than its fair share of whisky tonight leaves sticky rings on the black lacquered piano. He sits there gazing out at the city, fingers scrabbling a half remembered tune on the keys. 

An ambient generative music piece created with Koan Pro in 1997. Audio from SoundBlaster AWE card, though extra reverb may have been added by the Yamaha DB50XG daughterboard. One of the things I liked about Koan (in my experience, anyway) was that although it often generated plinkerty-plonk random not-quite-music, there were glimpses of it sounding almost human - 5:42 is an example . AI FTW, as the robots say.

Lacquer

Koan X was a drag-and-drop generative music program with instruments lovingly made by Tim Cole, Pete Cole and Tim Didymus. The user had less control than with Koan Pro, but it was a faster way to get results.  

I never really understand how to use my music software, so I faff about with it until I manage to get a result that I like. In this case I used multiple instances of a mutating drum pattern and changed the instrument voices to some of the Yamaha DB50XG's percussion instruments. Hey presto, a minimalist masterpiece (or mess-up, depending on your view). 

I am not sure why I chose that title, unless I thought it was a jolly tune that might help lift a gloomy mood.

Healup

The soundtrack to a Flash-compatible animation I made for EnoWeb.

Tom Boon