Hey folks, I'm the creator of the site and the music on it. I'm happy people are enjoying the music.<p>I see some people are having a rough time on mobile devices so I wanted to help with that. I have found that iOS Safari will mute the site if you have your iPhone in silent mode (there might be a way for me to fix this but I haven't explored it much yet). However, you'll probably find that many of the pieces snap crackle and pop a bit on mobile devices. I'm looking into ways to improve that but for now unfortunately the best advice I have is to try it on your desktop or laptop or to try some of the less complex pieces towards the end of the list. I really appreciate the feedback; I've only done so much testing with the devices I have available so hearing from more people with a larger range of devices is super helpful. Feel free to open issues on Github as well: <a href="https://github.com/generative-music/generative.fm/issues" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/generative-music/generative.fm/issues</a>
I'm a big fan of procedural/generative music, and have created some of my own. I tend to take a very different approach from Alex, embracing determinism rather than infinite variations, trying to make something more musically complex rather than ambient. If you're interested, the most recent piece I've made is here, accompanied by a visualization of what's happening and a detailed writeup explaining how the system works: <a href="http://ivanish.ca/diminished-fifth/" rel="nofollow">http://ivanish.ca/diminished-fifth/</a>
The source code is available on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/generative-music/generative.fm" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/generative-music/generative.fm</a>
Simple, but pleasant. This is how it starts. It might take some time, but I think most ambient music in video games will eventually be procedural.<p>EDIT: Just want to say that these are better than I expected. As good or better than about half the ambient music recommendations I get on Spotify.
With this and other generated music, often it feels like you are only capturing <i>local</i> information about what it means to be a song, and maybe missing something global.<p>For example things can feel a bit disconnected, chords and progressions that don't "transition" properly. To me, that is a bit unpleasant. I feel like that means you need to give it some extra constraints, but this might depend on the style.
If you like this type of thing and want to go darker/heavier, Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse and Cryo Chamber are personal favorites of mine for “music” while programming.
Looks like it's been generated client-side. While impressive, it's also CPU demanding. Unfortunately, muttering fan on my (quite dated) notebook kind of ruins the experience.
Is this currently working on mobile? I’m not getting audio but seeing indications that it is playing, so maybe it’s just not accounted for.<p>I love Brian Eno, so I’m super excited to see something like this pop up. Would love to contribute generative systems!
This is absolutely fantastic and exactly the kind of music I love to hear while working. It has already conquered a rare spot as one of my pinned tabs! Wouldn't this be a great usecase for a tiny OSX tooolbar-app that lets you use your media-controls to play/pause and move between songs?<p>Offer that with a free tier of one or two songs and upsell the rest for a few bucks (with a 1min demo-tune-in for unpurchased songs).<p>Oh, and throw in a few subtle but noticable war drums when ever a new email arrives, that would be brilliant! ;)
Thanks for sharing this! I just spent, I'm not sure, maybe an hour and a half listening to it ('Trees', to be specific) while reading. I usually struggle to concentrate for extended periods, but this really seemed to help. Just the right balance to be calming and undistracting, but interesting enough to occupy the part of my mind that would normally jump out every 10 minutes and suggest a change of focus.
We use contextual cues to help in recalling memorized information. If I learn/study about ABCD while listening to music FFF, I'll more easily recall ABCD while listening to FFF.<p>This is why I don't see "endlessly unique" as something inherently good. It would be cool, however, to play it for 1h (or so), save it and then re-play it whenever.
This is great.<p>It would be nice to have a way to auto-play each piece (something like <a href="https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/dronezone" rel="nofollow">https://somafm.com/player/#/now-playing/dronezone</a>) so that I can start the music automatically (e.g. from a script) without having to click.
This is great, I paid for a lifetime membership to brain.fm but the app is still broken on iOS. If these can play for longer then 25 minutes (where brain.fm dies on mobile for me) then I’ve found my go-to.
I'm really excited for where this can go. I'd love for it to be possible to feed a generator like this with the style of music I like to have on in the background and then it interpolate an "infinite stream" from there–naïvely, I feel like certain genres (e.g. progressive house) would be ideal for this kind of treatment since they seem to be inherently quite structured and recurrent.
It is very good! Tried it yesterday, and opened again today.<p>Now I want is as a soundtrack for my life :D You should totally publish a Desktop app which loads on system boot!<p>Also, did you think of partnering with one of these relaxation or meditation apps?
Can’t wait to try it out on my desktop.<p>On my mobile (iPhone), I get clicks and other artifacts on playback, which increase when scrolling the view, which I guess indicates samples not being generated fast enough.
It seems to generate the elements of certain styles, but there is no ligature or movement in the overall music at all. I suppose this meets the definition of "ambient" but it is not really suitable for the genre.
I imagine someday you'll be able to tie this to a neural sensor for a feedback loop that enables machine learning to generate the exact music for the exact mood you want.