Discussion
Every train, a note.
zephyreon: Very neat. This is an example of digital art that I’d love to see exist in physical form somehow. I suppose it could get rather noisy at a museum but I love the intersection of mass transit & sound.
huhkerrf: The sound doesn't work for me, but I love the description of the G. It does have a cult following: and just like a cult you're tricked into loving it despite its many flaws, like the one hour wait at night or sprinting to the middle of the platform.
card_zero: The trombones (A, C, and E) are kind of farty. This is not how I remember "Take the A train". Too much realism.
ananmays: lovely
jannyfer: Interesting and amazing presentation.I also liked that it didn't explicitly say how it decides when to play a note.All the subway routes are normalized to 15 seconds long from beginning to end. The app then plays all 15 second routes together, playing the instrument assigned to the route when there's a train there.Neat commentary on the instruments that were assigned to the route when you mouse over it.
bsimpson: The MTA knows the nights you want to take it, and ensures it doesn't go past Bedford-Nostrand on precisely those nights.
AlBugdy: It's interesting that a lot people like this but dislike AI-generated music. The music itself here is completely random to us, yet I can't see how AI-generated music can be worse than random.The idea is novel/fun/cool, but the notes ARE random as far as we can tell. So if you're against AI music, you just like the idea but don't care about the music or... something else I can't imagine.Enlighten me, please.
PowerElectronix: I think it has to be with expectations. Out of random music we don't expect much, so any result that is nice is good enough. For AI we are promised it's "just as good" but we get generic, soulless music that bring nothing new to the table.Yeah, it's better than a lot of people, but it doesn't deliver the "just as good" part. On top of that you get that now anyone can promp a song and have a deluge of grey, tasteless elevator music.
xydac: classic, crowdsource it to other cities !!
MattGaiser: A lot has to do with the story. Nobody would likely listen to this as pure music.
card_zero: What is "pure music"? Who listens to music with no ideas about it?Of course music can be worse than random: it can be annoying.
hax0ron3: I love jazz but it's kind of funny that this is kind of indistinguishable from a really experimental jazz recording.
