Ambient and Generative Music

I wasn’t familiar with ambient music until the past year. I like some of Brian Eno’s pieces.

I watched this clip a couple of days and thought it was interesting that he is using what looks like JavaScript to create some of the effects (1:44).

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Thanks Josh!
Seems like there is an SDK to manipulate the program.
This intrigues me to dig deeper.
I’m a more post rock + heavy metal guy, who enjoys ambiance music when the moods sets in.

Highly enjoy Philip Glass’s work too. (found by watching the Qatsi trilogy)

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I wonder if it’s Logic Pro.

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH27734?locale=en_US

Logic is mentioned in this article, which also mentions one called Koan, which became Noatikl and then Wotia.

It looks like Brian Eno also created some music apps:

http://www.generativemusic.com/

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I wonder that playing 8 hour Max Richter’s Sleep while sleeping, has an effect on lucid dreaming or just a placebo for not having nightmares.
Any Thoughts.
(This version has Ads init. Not sure how’d that work out for some one who is sleeping/dreaming hehe)

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I mentioned that piece to a friend, and he mentioned some other pieces, so I’ll post them here. :slight_smile:

Moby – Long Ambients

Arctica – Annuminas

Robert Rich – Somnium

Someone told me that Annuminas’ entire Bandcamp discography is on sale for €7.70 (36 releases) at the moment. Here’s a link, if anyone is interested:

I want to try writing some ambient music at some point. There’s an interesting page on generative music here:
https://teropa.info/loop/#/title

also interesting:

a JavaScript library called Tone.js:
https://tonejs.github.io/

an introduction to synths (written with Tone.js):

a synth in the browser:

and a downloadable simulator:

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