exceptionally cool and well illustrated!! love the ~last 20 permutations feeling like such a grand flourishing buildup, and the filter opening up gradually throughout is a v nice touch :))
Very interesting to hear and see the results of this! I wonder what metric would best capture a person's perception of the distance. Some of the earlier sequences sound closer to The Lick than some of the later ones, e.g. 2494 (55:25) sounds closer than 2514 (55:52) even though their distances are 2 and 1, respectively. I think this is because 2494 has the right rhythm, and its melodic contour is almost the same, except for the first D, whereas the length of the second E in 2514 emphasises the fact that it's in the wrong place.
Neat video! Just an engraving tip though: you don't always need to show beats 2 or 4 like you have. If you have a quarter note on the and of 1 or the and 3, and it's immediately followed by an 8th note, it's very well understood that it's a syncopated hit.
Good point... The scrolling score you see is created from lilypond code generated by the sort visualization program. I programmed it to create a tie on any crossing of the beat, but as you pointed out, with quarter notes, only the ones that cross over beat 3 or the bar line really matter in 4/4 time. I'll update that for the next version (if ties are needed again).
This was done in Java using a graphical library called Processing, with the javax.sound.midi package for writing out MIDI data. The scrolling score was generated by the program as lilypond code.
i'm curious to see the same process applied to intervals rather than notes doing that may have more of an effect of going from far away to closer since i can sorta hear the lick in some of the "farther away" permutations but not so much in some of the "closer" permutations
this feels like trying to guess a number between 1 and 100 but you check every single number and guess the number last
exceptionally cool and well illustrated!! love the ~last 20 permutations feeling like such a grand flourishing buildup, and the filter opening up gradually throughout is a v nice touch :))
Very interesting to hear and see the results of this! I wonder what metric would best capture a person's perception of the distance. Some of the earlier sequences sound closer to The Lick than some of the later ones, e.g. 2494 (55:25) sounds closer than 2514 (55:52) even though their distances are 2 and 1, respectively. I think this is because 2494 has the right rhythm, and its melodic contour is almost the same, except for the first D, whereas the length of the second E in 2514 emphasises the fact that it's in the wrong place.
It might matter more for different people too? I noticed I thought the ones with the correct rhythm felt the “closest”
even 32 (0:43) sounded close
Neat video! Just an engraving tip though: you don't always need to show beats 2 or 4 like you have. If you have a quarter note on the and of 1 or the and 3, and it's immediately followed by an 8th note, it's very well understood that it's a syncopated hit.
Good point... The scrolling score you see is created from lilypond code generated by the sort visualization program. I programmed it to create a tie on any crossing of the beat, but as you pointed out, with quarter notes, only the ones that cross over beat 3 or the bar line really matter in 4/4 time. I'll update that for the next version (if ties are needed again).
It's interesting how this pretty much feels like C major even though the licc is in D minor
Curious as to how you coded this, very interesting
This was done in Java using a graphical library called Processing, with the javax.sound.midi package for writing out MIDI data. The scrolling score was generated by the program as lilypond code.
i'm curious to see the same process applied to intervals rather than notes
doing that may have more of an effect of going from far away to closer
since i can sorta hear the lick in some of the "farther away" permutations but not so much in some of the "closer" permutations
Sequence 236
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Ok now make them phase
damn what