music made by rules, and where the rules came from.
People have always tried to build something that makes music on its own. Every attempt tells you what they believed about machines, and about themselves. I find those attempts, rebuild them, make my own, and listen to what comes out.
No AI chooses a note. Every sound here comes from a rule, a roll or a line of code.
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dice waltz
A waltz game from 1792, played by dice around the clock on YouTube. Every sound is synthesised in code, and viewers change it from the chat.
run → roll a waltz live on youtube