http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essynth

Synthesis based on evolutionary algorithms.
This description is fairly short and abstract and/or I'm not smart
enough to understand it. Apparently it has been implemented in Pd,
though I don't know where to find the patches or any sound created
with it.

-Chuckk

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Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essynth
> 
> Synthesis based on evolutionary algorithms.
> This description is fairly short and abstract and/or I'm not smart
> enough to understand it. Apparently it has been implemented in Pd,
> though I don't know where to find the patches or any sound created
> with it.
> 
> -Chuckk
> 

Found this via Google:- see the reference to PD patches and sounds at 
the bottom:

http://www.nics.unicamp.br/~fornari

And a paper here:

www.nics.unicamp.br/~fornari/essynth1/essynth1.pdf

I wish the examples didn't seem so dependent on random evolution and 
glitch-music though. Almost all the online examples state white noise as 
the "Target" for the evolutions; seems a little limiting from a musical 
point of view.

Richard Dobson

I think I know the guy, Fornari. He was a couple of years ahead of me
in the Uni, I think in Electric Engineering, and a jazz pianist too.  The
group there seems to have had interest in chaotic systems for a good
while. This is a by-the-by, anyway... sorry for the noise.

Victor
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Dobson" 
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Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 10:38 AM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Essynth- worth a discussion?


> Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essynth
>>
>> Synthesis based on evolutionary algorithms.
>> This description is fairly short and abstract and/or I'm not smart
>> enough to understand it. Apparently it has been implemented in Pd,
>> though I don't know where to find the patches or any sound created
>> with it.
>>
>> -Chuckk
>>
>
> Found this via Google:- see the reference to PD patches and sounds at the 
> bottom:
>
> http://www.nics.unicamp.br/~fornari
>
> And a paper here:
>
> www.nics.unicamp.br/~fornari/essynth1/essynth1.pdf
>
> I wish the examples didn't seem so dependent on random evolution and 
> glitch-music though. Almost all the online examples state white noise as 
> the "Target" for the evolutions; seems a little limiting from a musical 
> point of view.
>
> Richard Dobson
>
>
>
>
>
> Send bugs reports to this list.
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> csound" 

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Richard
Dobson wrote:
> Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essynth
>>
>> Synthesis based on evolutionary algorithms.
>> This description is fairly short and abstract and/or I'm not smart
>> enough to understand it. Apparently it has been implemented in Pd,
>> though I don't know where to find the patches or any sound created
>> with it.
>>
>> -Chuckk
>>
>
> Found this via Google:- see the reference to PD patches and sounds at the
> bottom:
>
> http://www.nics.unicamp.br/~fornari
>
> And a paper here:
>
> www.nics.unicamp.br/~fornari/essynth1/essynth1.pdf
>
> I wish the examples didn't seem so dependent on random evolution and
> glitch-music though. Almost all the online examples state white noise as the
> "Target" for the evolutions; seems a little limiting from a musical point of
> view.

Agreed. The sound samples seem to confirm my intuition- that it's not
so much a new method of sound production as a new method for choosing
between sounds. That means Csound already has the capability, but it
hasn't been consolidated in a few opcodes.

I was also unable to download the Pd patch, bummer.
-Chuckk


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I thought of that when I saw where he was from. Small world.

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:55 PM, victor wrote:
> I think I know the guy, Fornari. He was a couple of years ahead of me
> in the Uni, I think in Electric Engineering, and a jazz pianist too.  The
> group there seems to have had interest in chaotic systems for a good
> while. This is a by-the-by, anyway... sorry for the noise.
>
> Victor
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Dobson"
> 
> To: 
> Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 10:38 AM
> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Essynth- worth a discussion?
>
>
>> Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essynth
>>>
>>> Synthesis based on evolutionary algorithms.
>>> This description is fairly short and abstract and/or I'm not smart
>>> enough to understand it. Apparently it has been implemented in Pd,
>>> though I don't know where to find the patches or any sound created
>>> with it.
>>>
>>> -Chuckk
>>>
>>
>> Found this via Google:- see the reference to PD patches and sounds at the
>> bottom:
>>
>> http://www.nics.unicamp.br/~fornari
>>
>> And a paper here:
>>
>> www.nics.unicamp.br/~fornari/essynth1/essynth1.pdf
>>
>> I wish the examples didn't seem so dependent on random evolution and
>> glitch-music though. Almost all the online examples state white noise as the
>> "Target" for the evolutions; seems a little limiting from a musical point of
>> view.
>>
>> Richard Dobson
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Send bugs reports to this list.
>> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe
>> csound"
>
>
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