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(Requires Flash)
This is a continuous piece is a variant on the tape loop experiments by Brian Eno on his 'ambient' series. Instead of tape loops, this uses several instances of a flash media player, each with a different playlist. The playlists all are different lengths with silences scattered throughout, and so the piece is essentially infinite. Due to random loading times, it's unlikely to even be the same on two different machines.
I started working with generative music quite a few years ago, when I provided scores for the later Creatures games. As the game ran continuously with no narrative, there was an advantage to have a random ambient background than a continuously repeating composition. I wrote a brief article on it here, although it's rather weirdly been shifted into third person. I've always wanted to write more generative pieces, but they're not easy to distribute. This player provided a simple solution!
As this is running four players in parallel, it may not work on older machines or low bandwidth connections. Or maybe there will just be more spaces between the notes...
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Media player written by Fabricio Zuardi