I think you really picked up what I was trying to do with the score, glad it came through.
I had some feedback from a art curator about a previous piece of work that I was going to show (this one in fact https://www.vitling.xyz/welcome-to-tech-talk/ ), and she didn't really understand what was going on. After explaining what was happening and how it all works she told me "I love it now; but you're hiding all the interesting parts from the audience".
One of the interesting parts about generative art is that the "work" I do is really the ruleset/algorithm, rather than the audio or visuals that come out of it, so I always want to find a way to show what's happening 'inside the box' so to speak. Source code can be nice, but only for those who can read it, and the core idea often gets lost in boilerplate and technical weirdness. That's where I got to the idea of writing a score for it instead, which just lays out the basic premise of what's going on - enough to understand that what's being played is generative but not so much as to get lost in the detail.
Correct answer. Also the RPi is only just powerful enough to run all the synths (it's a 3rd gen) and the prototype was Mac + Arduino; so made a lot of sense to just move the synthesis program to the Pi to make it self-contained and leave the Arduino program as-is.
Nope, it can get anywhere in the western musical system.
A triad 1 3 5 can become 7 3 5, then 7 2 5, which is a 5th. Once you can move a 5th you can move anywhere because it's a move of 7 in the integers modulo 12 (numbering all the notes chromatically) which will get you back round to 0 in 12 moves.
Maj -> Min is only one note change, as is moving inversions or adding or removing a 4th note.
Not listed so far in replies to this question: "Contact the original artist and ask them if they'll sell it, or commission them to make another"
Hi, it's me, the original artist :-D and this thing is taking up a lot of space in my 1-room apartment.
I'm not sure if I would want to sell it or not, but I find it funny that the business bitches here are talking about costs to hire someone to clone it and/or set up a factory before suggesting to talk to the person who actually did it.
I had some feedback from a art curator about a previous piece of work that I was going to show (this one in fact https://www.vitling.xyz/welcome-to-tech-talk/ ), and she didn't really understand what was going on. After explaining what was happening and how it all works she told me "I love it now; but you're hiding all the interesting parts from the audience".
One of the interesting parts about generative art is that the "work" I do is really the ruleset/algorithm, rather than the audio or visuals that come out of it, so I always want to find a way to show what's happening 'inside the box' so to speak. Source code can be nice, but only for those who can read it, and the core idea often gets lost in boilerplate and technical weirdness. That's where I got to the idea of writing a score for it instead, which just lays out the basic premise of what's going on - enough to understand that what's being played is generative but not so much as to get lost in the detail.