Too Smart For My Own Good
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Or something. About 13 years ago, I wrote a program that converts images into music. While not to everyone's taste, and actually pretty crappy about 20% of the time, the music produced was recognizable as such. Well. After a dozen years of actually paying attention to what I'm doing and learning all sorts of programmy stuff, I'm just now finishing up a rewrite in C# (the original was Delphi) and...it sounds like crap. The conversion it performs is much too accurate, or something. :( I am now going in adding features to make it sloppier. Sigh. But the UI is prettier. :-D EDIT: And the output isn't nearly as bad as it was on the first few tests... A MIDI file and the image it came from.[^] I don't expect anyone to listen to the entire thing...it's 30 minutes long. ;P But the first 3 minutes or so will give you an idea of what it can do. Standard, GM MIDI, so it should play on anything that will play MIDI. I think most PCs have the capability.
If you think your system produces crap music, have a look at this![^]
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Or something. About 13 years ago, I wrote a program that converts images into music. While not to everyone's taste, and actually pretty crappy about 20% of the time, the music produced was recognizable as such. Well. After a dozen years of actually paying attention to what I'm doing and learning all sorts of programmy stuff, I'm just now finishing up a rewrite in C# (the original was Delphi) and...it sounds like crap. The conversion it performs is much too accurate, or something. :( I am now going in adding features to make it sloppier. Sigh. But the UI is prettier. :-D EDIT: And the output isn't nearly as bad as it was on the first few tests... A MIDI file and the image it came from.[^] I don't expect anyone to listen to the entire thing...it's 30 minutes long. ;P But the first 3 minutes or so will give you an idea of what it can do. Standard, GM MIDI, so it should play on anything that will play MIDI. I think most PCs have the capability.
GenJerDan wrote:
the original was Delphi
I'm sorry. :^)
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GenJerDan wrote:
I wrote a program that converts images into music
:omg: You must be made of the same material of those people who once came to the idea of actually milking a cow and drinking the result. Seriously, images converted to music ?
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If I remember rightly, one of the puzzles in the Perplex City game was a picture which, when put through a processor to convert pictures to sound, produced the right answer - personally, I couldn't make anything out of what I heard when I did it. I'll try to remember to look it out tonight. EDIT - or even a quick look now - here[^] - the solution will be towards the end. Regards, Stewart
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If you think your system produces crap music, have a look at this![^]
==================================== Transvestites - Roberts in Disguise! ====================================
If you think that produces crap music, have a look at this![^]
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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If you think that produces crap music, have a look at this![^]
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
... and if you think they produce crap music, have a look at this![^]
==================================== Transvestites - Roberts in Disguise! ====================================
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... and if you think they produce crap music, have a look at this![^]
==================================== Transvestites - Roberts in Disguise! ====================================
Arggghhh! You win! You win!
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Or something. About 13 years ago, I wrote a program that converts images into music. While not to everyone's taste, and actually pretty crappy about 20% of the time, the music produced was recognizable as such. Well. After a dozen years of actually paying attention to what I'm doing and learning all sorts of programmy stuff, I'm just now finishing up a rewrite in C# (the original was Delphi) and...it sounds like crap. The conversion it performs is much too accurate, or something. :( I am now going in adding features to make it sloppier. Sigh. But the UI is prettier. :-D EDIT: And the output isn't nearly as bad as it was on the first few tests... A MIDI file and the image it came from.[^] I don't expect anyone to listen to the entire thing...it's 30 minutes long. ;P But the first 3 minutes or so will give you an idea of what it can do. Standard, GM MIDI, so it should play on anything that will play MIDI. I think most PCs have the capability.
I'd blame instagram instead.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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I've just recently finished re-reading Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective agency. One of the main characters in that was a developer who had written software to display accounts as music, then anything else that could be converted to a waveform. Most of his results were formless cacophonies too. But, it seems like a decent idea to me. It is trying to create synesthesia, converting what stimulates one sense into something that stimulates another.
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Or something. About 13 years ago, I wrote a program that converts images into music. While not to everyone's taste, and actually pretty crappy about 20% of the time, the music produced was recognizable as such. Well. After a dozen years of actually paying attention to what I'm doing and learning all sorts of programmy stuff, I'm just now finishing up a rewrite in C# (the original was Delphi) and...it sounds like crap. The conversion it performs is much too accurate, or something. :( I am now going in adding features to make it sloppier. Sigh. But the UI is prettier. :-D EDIT: And the output isn't nearly as bad as it was on the first few tests... A MIDI file and the image it came from.[^] I don't expect anyone to listen to the entire thing...it's 30 minutes long. ;P But the first 3 minutes or so will give you an idea of what it can do. Standard, GM MIDI, so it should play on anything that will play MIDI. I think most PCs have the capability.
Just say the music it creates is experimental or avant-garde and you won't have to change a thing :D There's even a 'music' genre called noise and the idea is for the listener to NOT have a pleasant listening experience. Use mankinds weirdness in your favour here ;)
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Or something. About 13 years ago, I wrote a program that converts images into music. While not to everyone's taste, and actually pretty crappy about 20% of the time, the music produced was recognizable as such. Well. After a dozen years of actually paying attention to what I'm doing and learning all sorts of programmy stuff, I'm just now finishing up a rewrite in C# (the original was Delphi) and...it sounds like crap. The conversion it performs is much too accurate, or something. :( I am now going in adding features to make it sloppier. Sigh. But the UI is prettier. :-D EDIT: And the output isn't nearly as bad as it was on the first few tests... A MIDI file and the image it came from.[^] I don't expect anyone to listen to the entire thing...it's 30 minutes long. ;P But the first 3 minutes or so will give you an idea of what it can do. Standard, GM MIDI, so it should play on anything that will play MIDI. I think most PCs have the capability.
Wow, I just had a brilliant idea! Let's also create a program to convert your generated music back into an image. That way you can transfer images through sound (and see the music).
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Wow, I just had a brilliant idea! Let's also create a program to convert your generated music back into an image. That way you can transfer images through sound (and see the music).
Well, it could be used to create an image. But it won't be the image. The height/width isn't stored, and it doesn't use the entire pixel. And the map going the other way is ambiguous, i.e. is the note value of 112 representing a color value of 112 or 224?
