Infinity (K-Space album)

[sufi]

This strange thing was released quite a few years ago, i got a copy and we attempted to make a version that works online, but refactoring from its defunct software was sadly too much - we achieved a shareable version that works without the CD, which i have somewhere, a bit of a curiosity.
Then i forgot all about it and when i wanted to mention a couple of times in discussions here about spontaneously generated music i couldnt even remeber the name. & now that it's found its way back to the memory palace gates, i don't remember which threads i would have cited it - one was maybe @blissblogger's though iirc

Infinity (K-Space album) - Wikipedia

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The music produced by the CD is electroacoustic improvisation that is rooted in Tuvan shaman ritual music.

The sound source selection process the software uses is not random, but algorithmic based on scores Hodgkinson wrote for the project. Each time "PLAY" is pressed, the software selects a new score which it uses to construct a new piece of music. The score consists of a set of audio file selection criteria, which vary depending on what has happened before. While there are a finite number of scores on the CD, there are many different interpretations of each score.

So it's basically music on a "CD-ROM" rather than a music CD, you put it in the computer and it generates tunes based on a library of samples and some simple algorithms to knit them together, it's different every time but, usefully, is a good listen.

John Cavanagh of The Herald in Glasgow said in a review of the album that even though he knew each listening was the result of a "computer triggered sequence", it always sounded like a "cohesive musical work, as though it was meant to be that way".[2]

Conceptually it's really a nice thing, i wish the same model could be applied to some other types of music - anyone know of any?