Evolution Presentation

Audio snapshots from DarwinTunes.org at various intervals during evolution.  As of 2012 we are at 3500 generations and still going strong... you can take part in this interactive experiment here: http://game.darwintunes.org

DarwinTunes

These loops were chosen objectively, where two or more students rated them, on average, better than "I like it".

DarwinTunes Student Populations

The final regular update from the 2009/2010 DarwinTunes experiment.  We'll keep this population running, and introduce a few more over the next month or so.  Stay tuned to Twitter and Facebook for announcements.

I've chosen and ordered the loops so that you can hear the different elements that are in common between individuals.

DarwinTunes medley at 2500 generations

Audio snapshots from DarwinTunes.org at various intervals during evolution.

DarwinTunes medley at 1375 generations

DarwinTunes medley at 0 generations

DarwinTunes medley at 400 generations

DarwinTunes medley at 250 generations

DarwinTunes medley at 600 generations

DarwinTunes medley at 150 generations

Best of generations 1-2

Best of population 1 at 78 generations

Best of population 2 at 75 generations

Best of population 3 at 83 generations

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.

DarwinTunes - the first 7200 generations

Bob is a human who loves music and has been doing live mixes on a lockdown radio station he set up with friends. Most are on Mixcloud (https://www.mixcloud.com/Glastonauts_Live/) but he'll start putting them here too.

DarwinTunes (2009-2016) was an experiment to see what kind of music we get as a result of evolution by natural selection applied to a computer-generated four bar loop.  The "synth patches" are evolved also - using additive synthesis (just sine waves).  The only human input was the choice of tempo, time signature, effects rack and few other minor things.

DarwinTunes medley at 2500 generations

uncoolbob aka DarwinTunes