Hi erik! i'm the music/audio guy of the site. First thank you for the precious feedback and encouragement :). Your description at the end of the reply is accurate. There are 10 to 15 instances of synths/sample based stuff, which take midi imputs based on the following criteria:
A list of frequencies.
A list of note durations.
A list of amplitudes.
All this process is triggered by a set time (in seconds) which, going in tandem with a selected chance rate of generating the note, makes a music event.
Having this running on a server would be hard for us, so the decision to make a long export of these "sessions".
I agree on the fact that Stochastic music has a certain academic connotation and standards for a composer, standards that are far from being achieved from the tracks on the site. I will try my best to make new soundscapes even more dynamic in the future :).
Hey thanks for being so understanding! I just want to say that I feel badly for being this negative, it's out of character for me, but this is a realm that's close to my heart and I'm just critical because I care about it and want to see projects like these exceed my wildest expectations.
You should also take my comments with a grain of salt because my hopes for things like this are for lack of a better way of putting it musically bound. I can't help but listen to this as art, and so I'm responding to it that way. I'm taking these pieces as things for close listening.
I think making long renders for static streaming is a fine approach by the way - have you thought about automating a re-render more often for each piece?
A more expensive alternative would be to run a dedicated render server to generate music in realtime, and then multiplex the stream on demand with something like wowza. Makes me miss the days of r4nd.org: http://rhizome.org/discuss/15607/#29894
Good luck with the project & thanks again for sharing!
Constructive criticism is always appreciated!
A nice happy solution that we want to implement in the coming days is to have even longer exports start at a random file time (having it looping off course).
Also i didn't know about r4nd.org! Is there a link where to listen some snippets of it?
A list of frequencies. A list of note durations. A list of amplitudes.
All this process is triggered by a set time (in seconds) which, going in tandem with a selected chance rate of generating the note, makes a music event.
Having this running on a server would be hard for us, so the decision to make a long export of these "sessions".
I agree on the fact that Stochastic music has a certain academic connotation and standards for a composer, standards that are far from being achieved from the tracks on the site. I will try my best to make new soundscapes even more dynamic in the future :).