[interleave]

Also a huge Eno fan here. Put together, I probably have listened to Music for Airports, Another Green World, Taking Tiger Mountain and Discreet Music more than any other artist. Maybe Philip Glass comes in at a close second.

Anyways, in 2016, Tero Parviainen (@teropa) shared this really cool long-form exploration called "JavaScript Systems Music – Learning Web Audio by Recreating The Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno" that I enjoyed tremendously (and I don't even like Javascript!)

Check it out at: https://teropa.info/blog/2016/07/28/javascript-systems-music...

[bradly]

Thanks for sharing. I've been on a path of algo music with JavaScript (I also do not enjoy JavaScript) and have mostly just guess-and-checked my way through it. I'm going to work through this as my advent of code project.

Yesterday I put up a little dictionary of synth sounds that I'm building out to help me on my journey (https://synthrecipes.org). The goal to be able to export any particular sound in a format for different live coding environments. Sounds are defined in a JSON format like https://synthrecipes.org/recipes/acid-bass.json. I'll open source it today so other can submit sounds.

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Edit: I've open sourced the repo so others can improve existing sounds and add new ones. https://github.com/bradly/synth-recipes/tree/main

[criddell]

That's really cool.

Music is funny. I played the closed hi-hat sound (https://synthrecipes.org/#closed-hi-hat) a couple of times and my brain instantly started playing AC/DC's, Back in Black. I probably haven't listened to that song in 15 years and now I'm shuffling AC/DC on Spotify.

Also, the "Sub bass" link might be broken:

https://synthrecipes.org/#Sub-bass

[HansardExpert]

Did you know https://play.generative.fm/browse

[jacquesm]

Check out his work with Jon Hassel and if you feel like it 'Pearl'.

Both are - in my opinion, of course - awesome. Though the Jon Hassel collaboration may take a while to grow on you.

[pstuart]

And Apollo, which is among his best works.

[inference-god]

I'm going to try gain with Eno after reading your post, I just find it incredibly boring. I wish I didn't.

[msephton]

When you feel bored listening to this sort of music you are already half way to the Alpha state (I heard it called that by Quincy Jones). Go a little further, and when your brain fully disengages you can use the space/quiet/calm to go to new places and come up with some amazing ideas.

[pstuart]

Apollo and The Pearl would be great additions to that list (Apollo is perfect)