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DarwinTunes

@DarvinTunes

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 medley at 0 generations

DarwinTunes medley at 400 generations

DarwinTunes medley at 250 generations

DarwinTunes medley at 150 generations

These are songs from the forthcoming album Big Lulls.  It is an experiment in applying the principles of just intonation to 12-tone even temperament composition.

[You/I] Cannot Walk Away From [Your/My] Heart

Solace in a Given Era

Incorruptible

Yooo guys, finally... Here's is another 6 hours set from us at zukunft zurich! Take your time, relax and enjoy this 343 minutes journey wherever you are right now. Love A2

Adriatique 343min Set Live @ Zukunft - Thu, 2014-02-20

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Einmusik - Screaming Hand (Oliver Schories Remix) - out: 27.10.2014 on EINMUSIKA

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

∆ www.missmelera.com
∆ www.colourizon.com

Miss Melera ° Colourizon 029 ° Feb 2015

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

DarwinTrack #024

DarwinTrack #026

R. Beatty from forthcoming "Wrong Element EP" on Acoustic Division

Three Legged Race - Jet Animal

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

Still going strong after 6000 generations - that's 120,000 loops that you guys have listened to in total!

Be part of the next 1000 generations at
http://darwintunes.org/evolve-music

DarwinTunes medley at 6000 generations

Einmusik-Pheasant

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

The final chapter of the original DarwinTunes experiment.  Here are some randomly selected loops from the final population.

DarwinTunes-medley-at-8700-generations

Grimes - Eight (Saes Remix)

A 2 hour cut of a marathon set I did last week at an unofficial afterparty.

Enjoy!

Trossen LOS 2.0 After @ Club K Jan van Galenstraat

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 - the first 7200 generations

uncoolbob aka DarwinTunes