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Well, I guess I lost

Nobody has lost until voting and judging are finished :4

I have clairvoyant vision.

I don't believe you but you probably saw that coming.

I hope those other dudes'll finish their stuff else we'll be 5 which is fine, I guess but you know, wouldn't hurt to be more when he have many musicians on the site.

this is the first music contest I have finished my entry for though

i usually don't finish any of my stuff cause I lose direction and want to work on it too long

but now I have no time so I just have to finish it somehow and go do other things

this is why I said having too much time for something can be your enemy, especially if you're capable of working fast, in programming you can make elaborate, team-wide plans to create features for a software project, where you limit your own time, and the point is to get stuff done

I see music production as devlopment, since I am a programmer, so having some time constraints is greatly helpful

read up on it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(software_development)

Grrr... that sounds like business. I hate it when people use art as a business. Art takes time, contemplation, revelation, whatevs.

Anyways, I'm glad and hope you feel satisfied for bringing us the good stuff in this type of contest.

Yeah, that's perfect for business. If, you're a Japanese, even better! However, I a bit value my stomach.

Programming is also an art. Music has music theory, rhythm, scales, keys, etc, programming has data structures, design principles, algorithms, and so on. Both music and programming have their technical definitions, and both have their very artistic results. No two programmers make the same code, even if the circumstances they program in are completely the same (although they never are).

Music making and programming are really no different in any way as far as art goes. That's why I take the same approach to any sort of art.

I am not Japanese but I have to work with people, so scrum is good xD

Well, physics is also art, mathematics also but those are hard arts or how should I call them... less evident arts.
Music is indeed mathematics.

People who aren't into math/software/physics usually don't compose the same way as those who do. When I compose music I design a tree structure of patterns I mean to include, how they pan out, what parts get changed, how this harmony will interact with another harmony, what the net dissonance vs consonance ratio would be, and believe or not, it is very easy to mathematically calculate A FEELING THAT A PART OF HARMONY WILL EVOKE IN MOST PEOPLE. More over, mixing is literal math, since headroom, interference, etc are just functions with variables.

I am actually working on my thesis, that deals with this very topic. I choose to put music and software together, and use an AI to extract the "mood" of the song so that one can search music based on mood. There's already software that does this, and there are more papers on this topic, but I choose to contribute to this topic since it is of great interest to me.

What do you expect to find? What do you want to find? What would the results benefit us?

Check these (I think you might already know them):
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoreanism#Music_and_harmony
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachus#Manual_of_Harmonics
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_tuning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_designed_with_the_golden_ratio
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_and_mathematics
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_music

I don't expect to find anything in particular, just what types of AI are good for this kind of a thing, what settings for them are good, and what can be concluded from that.

Not all studies are about finding something very specific, and I don't think I will do that with the intentions I have now.

By the way, what's your gear?