Absolut Mario

[BeatboxMasturz]

they could do so much with these machines, but they just play abstract sounds

[MarbleMind]

Apparently, an acquaintance of mine managed to generate a pretty melodic, consistently sounding track back in March (The project is now defunct, as you maybe know). I uploaded it on YouTuhbe, if you're up to it, you can listen to it under watch?v=Dg2qJkuiGLE. (yeah, I know, this will probably be thumbed down a billion times but one can try, no? ;) )

[MarbleMind]

sorry, I certainly meant to write "if you're up for it"

[thebigbadjohnsmith]

All music is abstract sound. Please keep an open mind.

[ninana]

Ooooo Animusic for real. *nerd*

[domimgenick]

Amazing construction, but it really most of the time sounds horrible. Maybe another composer, or other textures to hit. The percussion section just sounds like a secretary which has lost the plot. - The construction is actually real?

[fergus247]

balls hitting an instrument.. i mean come on!

[mrpenguinismyhomeboy]

lol. balls.

[fergus247]

this is so dumb

[dangerardo80]

mario theme????

[SsoroizaN]

NO!!

[tackam]

Too fucking cool.

[thericterscale]

It would be even better if you put two speeds on the devices you use to fling the golf balls and put a second row of xylophone instruments but have them be bass and make the front row be trebble that way you could play bass and trebble at the same time. that would also mean changing the comps output signals to be able to ouput two signals, one to the first speed on the "golf ball flinging device" and the second output to the second speed. Faster speed means longer golf ball distance

[whiteakers]

how would having them in different rows make any difference? you can trigger all simultaneously as it is and there are bass notes

[Booyeah10]

This is Mario Theme? 0_0

[CarlosIsDown]

Shi, it really wasn't necissary to quadruple post that.

Oh, and usually in improv, you hear the main line over and over. This machine must have a vastly different form of improv programmed into it. I do hear snippeds of the main melody.

[Americaisapathy]

it's not supposed to sound like mario, he just wanted to see the improvisation the machine would have when he gave it that melody.

[holymonkeylight]

Perfectly created machine. You give it a rift and it does what traditional Jazzist do. I'm impressed :)

[apollyon1]

This is why we conventionaly use humans with instruments to create music.

[PyroBoydj]

I don't care if it only played one song it's still one of the coolest things I've seen in a good while. The fact that it even attempts to compose is amazing. There is no mathematical formula for "good music" so this is really spectacular.

Where can i get one? ;-)

[DancingWaldo]

Its not supposed to sound like the mario theme, the original idea of the project was to make a machine that would simulate creativity by coming up with its own song based on a little riff that you provide.

[CarlosIsDown]

Hmmm, maybe it's because the rythm at the beginning was a little off. You know machines: they freak if the rythm is off.

Actually, a lot of humans do that too.

[Dekanah]

very true.

[ChaosIntended8900]

that ratteling noise sounds annoying as hell.

[ashorama13]

that doesnt sound like the mario theme song at all.

[tsaolui]

is it me or does all the absolut machine songs sound the same

[anth4484]

lol, i think you're right.

[santiagoff]

no , they all sound the same.

[Fiat5000]

its cool, but it doesnt really sound like the mario theme

[santiagoff]

doesn't really sound like? doesn't sound at ALL like mario except for the beggining.

[rangerdave1]

cool , nice to see people not shifting the boundaries of percussion

[rangerdave1]

please ignore the not , typo

[Cameraman1101]

the problem with this machine is all the songs tend to sound the same

[thatboykieith]

WTF.Weirdo

[darthwish1138]

i hear seven notes of it and thats it.

[snake8127]

weird

[Masakione]

Is there only one of these machines?

What is it and all?

[suckithardnfast]

so a liquor company owns this ir whats the story with the vodka?

[recarte360]

que es eso?

[TurboNitroMonkey]

Oh it was the mario theme. The first seven notes you heard were input by a user and then the computer composes the next 2.5 minutes or so of music. So no, its not going to play through the whole song, but if you listen to the first seven notes again, you'll recognize them, and then the comp generates the rest. It replays the short riff a couple times during its little performance though.

Still fascinating.

[kailankuroneko]

you made this video or only you found it?

[michaeljwarren]

Not mario. not impressed, in a word, LAME. Perhaps another, no, not even worth it.

[RCWrench]

Very lame, too dark to see anything who or what is controlling the balls? some things are best left unposted.

[ShiShirakuku]

"The first seven notes from the mario theme are played, then the machine improvises a composition from what its heard."

Reading helps, sometimes.

[HunsV]

interesting

[duuuuuumb]

i aint hearin it, cool vid tho.