Monster Mash in F#-major, a Minecraft Music Box

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The "Monster Mash" is an experiment in Minecraft-based generative music: a dark mob-spawning pit lined with pressure plates and note blocks tuned to an F-sharp major scale. The random, almost Brownian movements of the monsters over the pressure plates produce dissonant note sequences.

The entire 50x50m complex is underwater in the middle of a blank Flatwater map. The viewing area is well-lit around the brick edges to prevent spawning, and 2m high to stop endermen from teleporting up into the safe area. Glass viewing floors provide views of the pit while blocking viewer-level mob spawning.

The pit is 10 meters deep to keep light from the safe area reaching the bottom; this facilitates mob spawning. A double layer of obsidian prevents enderman vandalism.

In the other pit, grass blocks and abundant lighting provide a venue for passive mobs -- animals -- to spawn. Note blocks here are set for percussion, so animals can play the drums.

An access tunnel runs between the pits, with a door to the animal pit, and iron bars for viewing the monster pit from the bottom. There is no access to the monster pit.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• minecraft
• music
• monsters
• creeper
• zombie
• enderman
• skeleton
• noteblock
• games
• gaming

[EpicKaiserTom]

They say if you have an infinite number of mobs stepping on an infinite amount of pressure plates, given an infinite amount of time, they will write Beethoven.

[0astarael0]

@Fidellio13 You would get Beethoven, Bach, The Black-eyed Peas, and every other song as well. Hell in a half hour or so an infinite number of these would have banged out the correct and incorrect version of alice's restaurant too.

[qiman2]

@0astarael0

Well, If the supply is truly infinite, then all of these songs would be written in an infinitely small amount of time.

Also, any black eyed peas song = 3 ducks, a cow, and 5 note blocks.

[prime463]

I think half an hour is more than enough for every Black-eyed Peas song.

[Fidellio13]

@loldudester Beethoven was known for his polyphony. You can't do that with one channel of tones.

[loldudester]

@Fidellio13 Yes that is true, but he was adapting the monkeys will write Shakespeare idea, which allowed for an infinite amount of time.

Also, a single mob could write Beethoven given an infinite amount of time..

[xxxfirefart]

Stupid little guys making noise

[Fidellio13]

@EpicKaiserTom Actually, you don't need the infinite amount of time. Theoretically, with an infinite amount of mobs and pressure plates (assuming an infinite number of systems as to avoid noise clutter) you would get Beethoven in the time it takes to play Beethoven. Similarly, given an infinite amount of time just a single mob room could do it.

[weaverflytyer]

Holy shit, that is alpha as fuck.