Looking Outwards-04

The project that I chose is the Eternal Jukebox, a program that analyzes a song for repeating notes and sequences of notes, so it creates an endless song. I admire the simplicity of the interface and how the visual communication relates to what the algorithm is doing to produce the sound. I think it works by using an algorithm to learn the sequence of notes or audio data as it sweeps through the song, so it can learn when to repeat sections without the song ending, using verses and choruses alternatively to make the song never-ending. There aren’t many artistic sensibilities involved aside from the visual interface, but there is some creative decision in how strict the algorithm is with cropping and replacing audio sequences.

https://eternalbox.dev/jukebox_index.html

Created by Paul Lamere in 2012, the process for the creation can be found at: https://musicmachinery.com/2012/11/12/the-infinite-jukebox/