Competition to programme a standardised synthesiser or electronic keyboard with a single (albeit presumably very complicated) equation, in order to produce the "best" music. Points are awarded for structure, tone, progression, originality and toe-tapping catchiness.
-- theleopard, May 29 2012

If the complication of the "single" equation is unlimited, you could just program in the Fourier transform of a nice bit of Bach.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 29 2012


//nice bit of Bach// Hardly original, don't you think?

But your point is valid.

Mayhap, points can be awarded (on a sliding scale) relating to the number of characters in the equation you use. I don't want it to be a case of just programming the desired notes. I want the algorithm to flow and ebb unpredictably, or infinitely, like the musical version of a fractal...
-- theleopard, May 30 2012


Hey, wait a minute! I thought this was about Al Gore! (he invented the algorithm) Nevermind. <walks away mumbling>
-- Grogster, May 30 2012


Since musical scores tend to have repetitious sections, it seems to me that the simplest algorhythm could be found in the reciprocals of various numbers. If the number is a prime, say larger than a thousand, then you can likely compute a thousand notes before it starts repeating.
-- Vernon, May 30 2012


Isn't this what Vangelis and similar musicians do already?
-- UnaBubba, May 30 2012



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