A melody written by 67,000 people using swarm intelligence

vemi · 01-30-2017, 01:05 AM

This is a pretty cool experiment - a melody was generated by allowing random internet people to vote on one note at a time.

The lyrics for the same song are being written at the moment - anyone can vote for the next word:
https://crowdsound.net/lyrics

The melody sounds better than I expected and the lyrics so far:

underneath the stars
dreaming of another world
wishing for
another chance to remember when
everything was easier and everyone
believed in something greater than themselves

DwnWthVwls · 01-30-2017, 04:11 AM

Boooooringgggg.....

The Batlord · 01-30-2017, 04:19 AM

Sounds like Elton John got wasted one night.

Trollheart · 01-30-2017, 05:37 AM

Did any of this crowd have musical experience? Honestly, this sounds like something that would come as a sample you can "play along with" on a cheap synthesiser. Not even good enough for a crappy ring tone. I hope they can see now this was a seriously bad idea. Music needs soul and heart, and this has none: it's like a blind rabbit randomly hitting at keys on a piano, on which some carrots have been randomly spread.

Psy-Fi · 01-30-2017, 11:04 AM

Reminds me of the saying "a camel is a horse designed by a committee."

It sounds like some generic, sappy music from a TV commercial aimed at moms with young children.

The Batlord · 01-30-2017, 11:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vemi

the lyrics so far:

underneath the stars
dreaming of another world
wishing for
another chance to remember when
everything was easier and everyone
believed in something greater than themselves

Lyrics that tweens and grandparents can both get behind.

DwnWthVwls · 01-30-2017, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elphenor

I think the point was the process not the result

If the point was the process than I'd rather go watch Twitch plays games.. where everyone in the chat is allowed to input 1 command at a time and try to complete a game like Pokemon.

Chiomara · 01-30-2017, 02:34 PM

Crowd-generated and ai-generated things like this are always interesting. Google recently had their AI engine read thousands of romance novels and then let it spit out a poem. Here's an excerpt:

there is no one else in the world.
there is no one else in sight.
they were the only ones who mattered.
they were the only ones left.
he had to be with me.
she had to be with him.
i had to do this.
i wanted to kill him.
i started to cry.
i turned to him.

(it's about what you'd expect from a creepy Google robot poem)

vemi · 02-10-2017, 02:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Boooooringgggg.....

Yeah The main song on the website is fairly ordinary but some of the remixes of it are pretty cool:

a few others here:

https://crowdsound.net/lounge

Trollheart · 02-10-2017, 07:09 AM

Yeah, still bone-numbingly boring and plastic.

Thought wait! This is interesting. If you let the first video play for thirty seconds then hit the second, so that the two are playing at once, it actually sounds quite .... boring.

Why don't they try it with some proper instruments instead of a thirty-dollar Casio?

01-30-2017, 01:05 AM	#1 (permalink)
vemi Groupie Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 21	A melody written by 67,000 people using swarm intelligence This is a pretty cool experiment - a melody was generated by allowing random internet people to vote on one note at a time. The lyrics for the same song are being written at the moment - anyone can vote for the next word: https://crowdsound.net/lyrics The melody sounds better than I expected and the lyrics so far: underneath the stars dreaming of another world wishing for another chance to remember when everything was easier and everyone believed in something greater than themselves

01-30-2017, 05:37 AM	#4 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	Did any of this crowd have musical experience? Honestly, this sounds like something that would come as a sample you can "play along with" on a cheap synthesiser. Not even good enough for a crappy ring tone. I hope they can see now this was a seriously bad idea. Music needs soul and heart, and this has none: it's like a blind rabbit randomly hitting at keys on a piano, on which some carrots have been randomly spread. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

02-10-2017, 07:09 AM	#10 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	Yeah, still bone-numbingly boring and plastic. Thought wait! This is interesting. If you let the first video play for thirty seconds then hit the second, so that the two are playing at once, it actually sounds quite .... boring. Why don't they try it with some proper instruments instead of a thirty-dollar Casio? __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

01-30-2017, 02:34 PM	#8 (permalink)
Chiomara mayor of spookytown Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 812	Crowd-generated and ai-generated things like this are always interesting. Google recently had their AI engine read thousands of romance novels and then let it spit out a poem. Here's an excerpt: there is no one else in the world. there is no one else in sight. they were the only ones who mattered. they were the only ones left. he had to be with me. she had to be with him. i had to do this. i wanted to kill him. i started to cry. i turned to him. (it's about what you'd expect from a creepy Google robot poem)