Why is all generative music all so horrid. When you are wandering around in a morning and you hear the dawn chorus, it sounds awesome. Is not all it is a series of musical phrases that are triggered for enviromental reasons (seemingly at random). Why is that case does generative music not sound awesome. I can't decide wether it has to do with the complexity of the over all system, or the interplay of the phrases within each system, or is it just because birds are analouge and not digital.
The dawn chorus contains all birds, supposedly, singing at the tops of their lungs like crazy. In that case they are not listening to each other and responding, so in that respect, there is no intellegence going on. All the little bird does is pump it's little songs out as much as possible... If a generative peice of music was written that did this it would sound awefull and cocofanous.
Maybe then, the dawn chorus actually is cacophanous, and we have just gotten used to it?
NOTE: In trying to find an audiosample of the dawn chorus for this blog, I became slightly distracted and found somthing even better. THIS, is a sample found on a website with the followin description "Lightning whistlers propagating in the magnetosphere. Lightning-generated whistlers came into regular use as remote probes of the radial distribution of electron density in the Earth's geomagnetic equatorial plane."
2 comments:
On latter reflection. Maybe the dawn choris only sounds good because it is going on all around you. I have listened to a few recordings of it and it sounds terrible... Maybe I need to rethink my stratergy!
Now the reason the Dawn Chorus sounds lovely is that a) each bird's individual song is designed to sound lovely and b) they DO listen to each other, they actively wait for audio space so as to ensure their own song is an audible [in the mix] as possible.
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