The Infinite Drum Machine

Here’s an opera music generator from the same site that I’ve spent an embarrassingly large amount of time playing with: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/blob-opera

The results sound a lot like the techno that Wishmountain (aka Matthew Herbert) was making with household objects a few years back

Wishmountain - Radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM1mN91YDgw

Wishmountain - Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2CV8m4u16E

Meh. This is an extremely basic drum machine / step sequencer with a larger number samples, and I'm pretty sure I've seen the "sample cloud" approach lots of times by now in various VSTs. Probably still fun for folk with zero exposure to music production!

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

It's funny, but hard to make anything sound good due to inconsistent hit points in the samples. Even with a very simple pattern nothing sounds very rhythmic to my ears.

Doesn't seem to have a lot of … drums?

No hi hat, no tom tom. No "taiko" drums which I realize is a bit broad. "Cymbals" nets me three "percussion finger bells" (okay, technically, I suppose?) and one "percussion drums".

Some snare and timpani…

This is a fairly basic interface, I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been more of a scene of making unusual music interfaces in the format of Electroplankton on the Nintendo DS.

It does seem to be one of those things where the people with the musical knowledge to potentially make super creative interfaces have gotten so deep into the technical side of things that they struggle to make intuitive UIs.

Electroplankton example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BexGR0OQF-I

That's neat. I found a tune that works for me within seconds.

How do I share it?