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darwintunes-evolution-of-music
Dr Bob MacCallum from Imperial College London describes the DarwinTunes experiment and its results delivered in classic Open University style.
"DarwinTunes - evolution of music commentary"
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- Adventure Film
- Adventure Film
Adventure Film at 0.36 on January 04, 2013 11:05
@danielthorntonmusic: Humans select who they're going to mate with. Humans are natural. Music is human.
- Schleppi Schombaggo
Schleppi Schombaggo at 3.50 on September 23, 2012 15:20
The best thing to happen to sex since, um, sex!
- Name_pending
- James Brown-Kinsella
James Brown-Kinsella at 0.43 on September 02, 2012 19:20
It is most definitely evolution. The computer program introduces random variance and the human voters are just the selecting agent
- Corey Maggiano
Corey Maggiano at 3.25 on August 06, 2012 18:33
Absolutely inspiring project. Thank you for pushing the limits of our understanding of changing culture through evolutionary theory! cheers!
- Corey Maggiano
Corey Maggiano at 0.36 on August 06, 2012 18:29
@danielthorntonmusic: You (and quite a few experts by the way) may need to question your original definition of Evolution. According to your perspective you didnt evolve either since it was your genes that constructed you...
- TheIntelligentFools
- Ashan Ayeshmantha
- smoonie
- uncoolbob
- Frois Victor
- Frois Victor
- fresh.fruits
fresh.fruits at 0.36 on June 25, 2012 11:12
@uncoolbob: Music is a human art. It only matters to humans.
This is more of an experiment in what "good music" is in my opinion
- Delta Dreams
Delta Dreams at 2.09 on June 25, 2012 03:49
very interesting concept. i should have included this in my music industry thesis.thesis.
- Yoav Tzfati
- Ouwen Huang
- mattharder
mattharder at 2.53 on June 22, 2012 12:38
How is this not American Idol for sine waves? And what is process of "sexual reproduction"?
- anasofia
- joshscholar
joshscholar at 0.56 on June 21, 2012 18:38
Sadly, I like the original random sine mixes more than the final results so I'm useless to your experiment
- BardCoennius
BardCoennius at 0.51 on June 21, 2012 17:33
@scaldinghotsoup: Oh yes....it took Nature millions of years to produce the noble, exquisite predator known as the wild wolf....and in a mere 40,000 years, human interference has mutated it into pathetic little creatures like the chihuahua and the pomeranian...considering the state of the world today and the ones who have now risen to dominance and whose lust for wealth and power are threatening to destroy the planet, I would say human-selection is NOT a good thing....
- castrechene
castrechene at 2.14 on June 21, 2012 11:54
and then we get to a eno/cluster/harmonia/neu!/kraftwerk daughter. that is, something peolple already know or heard... i know what i like and i like what i know.
- scaldinghotsoup
scaldinghotsoup at 0.51 on June 21, 2012 03:57
Furthermore, just because something is human-selected does not mean that it isn't evolution. Examples include dogs, drug-resistant bacteria, and the list goes on...
- scaldinghotsoup
scaldinghotsoup at 0.43 on June 21, 2012 03:56
It is evolution. Evolution is the change in the allele (or in this case, character) frequencies of a population over time. This fits that definition.
- uncoolbob
uncoolbob at 0.36 on June 19, 2012 22:43
@danielthorntonmusic: it's a very valid criticism - but we think in the context of music "surviving" within a human inhabited world, as long as we have a good number of listeners (and we did in the experiment and we have even more now), then it's a reasonable analogy to make with natural selection in the living world
- danielthorntonmusic
danielthorntonmusic at 0.36 on June 19, 2012 22:21
It's not "natural selection" it's HUMAN selection... so it's hardly evolution!
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