Crowd Remix

I have created the most powerful concatenative synthesizer / crowd-source remix engine known to man.

Play with Crowd Remix

Listen to example of song created and performed entirely within Crowd Remix

How it works

Search for any song on EchoNest. Local music and your friends music is preferable, because popular music is an echo chamber; music is popular because it's popular.

It creates a Color Palette of the song using my algorithm:

1. Segmentation.
2. 12-dimensional vector of timbre features for each segment.
3. Hierarchical clustering of segment vectors.
4. Flatten hierarchy to one dimensional array. Similar to how you would turn a binary tree into a linked list.
5. Map to hue.

Build rhythms with color

• Euclidean rhythms sound really good
• Concatenative Synthesis is good for glitch/textures/rhythms
• Export loops and drag them into your DAW (Ableton Live, etc)

Jam with keyboard

• Press key and save loop.
• Recall with same key.
• Hit ` to open Chaos Notes. Store composition notes inside.
• Loops are saved to database, updated concurrently for any user on that same page.

Efficient Production

• Instead of sequencing, build new parts by exploring the space of permutations of old songs
• Speeds up my music tenfold
• Good for teaching beginners

Options

Segment choice

• Chaos randomize segments
• Order segments don't change

Short segment behavior

• Flows segment continues on as it would in the original song (which may introduce new timbre) before jumping to next segment in loop
• Gaps segments end abruptly, introducing silence before next segment in loop

Loop Behavior

• Forever Loop loops
• Once Loop plays once, then silence
• And so on after loop, final segment continues on as it would in the original song

Layer

• On Earth Layer 1. All loops on layer 1 interrupt each other, but do not interrupt others.
• On Neptune Layer 2. All loops on layer 2 interrupt each other, but do not interrupt others.
• In Space No layer. These loops cannot be interrupted. Only the pause button can stop them.

Presets

• def Order flows forever on Earth; default loop pattern
• hit Order gaps once in space; one-time hit
• bm Order flows and so on on Earth; BookMark a point in the song
• grain Order flows forever on Earth, hi-tempo; for granular textures
• key Chaos flows once on neptune, very-high tempo; for pitched granularity when controlling with a midi keyboard
• infinite layer Chaos flows once in space; building up heavy textures

TODO

• Combining this a body-controlled MIDI interface. (Fuck being on stage, be in the audience and make music by dancing)
• Collaborate with as many musicians as possible.
• Teach more people beginner production with this tool
• Release music video remixer
• Option to upload music
• Option to remix soundcloud, youtube, bandcamp
• Use state machines to build automated indeterminate patterns
  • "Learn" from how user plays sampler; then continues to play on its own
  • Markov model of sampler triggers
  • A node in one state machine can be another state machine, which allows for large complexity of patterns
  • See http://remix.army for my future plans