2013/12/14 by Yannis Tzitzikas, Tzitzikas, Yannis
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Music Technology and Sound Studies #Music and Audio Processing #Sound (cs.SD) #Speech and Audio Processing #cs.SD
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1312.4014
7 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2013/12/14 · openalex publication_date 2013/12/14 · arxiv updated 2013/12/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper introduces a simple method for producing multichannel MIDI music that is based on randomness and simple probabilities. One distinctive feature of the method is that it produces and sends in parallel to the sound card more than one unsynchronized channels by exploiting the multi-threading capabilities of general purpose programming languages. As consequence the derived sound offers a quite ``full" and ``unpredictable" acoustic experience to the listener. Subsequently the paper reports the results of an evaluation with users. The results were very surprising: the majority of users responded that they could tolerate this music in various occasions.