DarwinTunes Iterates, Mixes And Culls To Create Listenable Music From Noise - Slashdot
Jun-21 2012 / 20:33 EDT

Slashdot - DarwinTunes Iterates, Mixes And Culls To Create Listenable Music From Noise:

Shipud writes "A collaboration between a group in Imperial College and Media Interaction group in Japan yielded a really cool website: darwintunes.org. The idea is to apply Darwinian-like selection to music. Starting form a garble, after several generations producing something that is actually melodic and listen-able. The selective force being the appeal of the tune to the listener. From the paper published [Monday] (abstract) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 'At any g...