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RhysU ◴[28 Jun 25 12:29 UTC] No.44404204[source]▶

A Strangeloop talk by Mouse Reeve, years ago, looked at the Markovian structure of "Gnossiennes" then made an endless version. A beautiful talk and really cool music website.

Music website: https://gnossiennes.mousereeve.com/ (slightly better on Desktop).

Talk: https://youtu.be/ANYMii3Sypg

Abstract: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2019/minimalist-piano-forever...

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1. vunderba ◴[28 Jun 25 15:21 UTC] No.44405315[source]▶

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If you like procedurally based music - you should definitely check out CPU Bach, a program written by Sid Meier (the Civ series designer) for the 3DO console back in the 90s.

It doesn't use markov chains (to my knowledge) but can generate some pretty impressive sounding Bach-like preludes / fugues using a weighted rule based approach across notes and melodic phrases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbGO0a5P0M8

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