Challenge: Brute Force Music Generation

Write a program trying all permutations of notes and picking the "good sounding" ones. Do a research on music perception.

How about you ``do a research'' on how to write English.

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Google says my English is okay:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22Do+a+research%22

>>2

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=29
''Do a research , is more appropriate..although you can very well say i am going to research on this subject

>>2
Hahahhahahaa, homo, hoooooomooooooo.

>>3
Then Google is an idiot and doesn't know English either.

>>1

I wrote this a while ago:

http://createuniverses.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/mechabach.html

The IQ of the OP must be in the sub-zeros.

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Keep butthurting. OP got a worthwhile idea. Imagine such app for iOS, integrated with minecraft and systemd.

It's not hard to automatically synthesize pleasing music. Musical theory has been very well understood for centuries so it won't be hard to design algorithms that use it.

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understood for centuries

Neuroscience is stll younger than a century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_O._Hebb#The_Organization_of_Behavior_.281949.29

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It's not hard to automatically synthesize pleasing music.

That's excellent news! I'm a simple man, so would you mind humouring me by writing a program to demonstrate how completely trivial it is to get a computer to generate pleasing music? A 3 part fugue would be nice. Given a subject, your utterly trivial algorithm should generate a set of countersubjects and decide how to use these to produce a beautiful fugue. With your superior intellect, I imagine this shouldn't take you longer than about 30 minutes.

If you started with ``doing a research'' you would have found out pleasantly sounding ``combinations of notes''.
PROTIP: stick with TSDT before you know what you're doing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSJtb1TQTKM

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When I say, it's now hard, I don't mean that I can deliver something reasonably mature in that short time frame. Writing a Pacman clone is not hard but I suspect that would take me 2 hours to do it. Writing some layer of the OSI model is not hard but it'll take me a few weeks or maybe a few months to deliver something mature.

When I say it's not hard, I mean it in the sense that we won't be forging new knowledge to achieve this goal. Forging new knowledge, whether theoretical work for the sake of furthering knowledge or R&D work for the sake of profit, is hard work. Musical theory is not new knowledge. Implementing musical theory techniques into software is straightforward work. I'm sorry if you interpreted my ideal of straightforward work as "takes no time to achieve".

I believe Wolfram is working on something to this tune

http://tones.wolfram.com/generate/

I like atonal music; would your proposed program be able to generate music that I like? If not, you are excluding a minority, and should check your tonal privilege.

I like anal music; would your proposed program be able to generate music that I like? If not, you are excluding a minority, and should check your anal privilege.