Cyberdelia is currently broken into the categories:
Fractals and Chaos
Cellular Automata and AI
Miscellaneous Cyberdelia
Algorithmic Music [this page]
Algorithmic Text
Some related books, video, music and software are at the Surreal World Bookstore
HISTORY OF ELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER MUSIC
INCLUDING AUTOMATIC INSTRUMENTS AND COMPOSITION MACHINES
While natural sounds are not algorithmic in the sense of the other entries on this page which essentially deals with human creations, I here include some links to sites featuring them as possibly of interest to visitors here, and since nature itself might broadly be considered as an algorithmic generator.Clicking the picture takes you to naturesongs , but many other resources exist, as detailed for example in the excellent Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net . Other sites which may not be on that page are Worldtwitch - Bird Vocalizations, Steven Hopp's Bird Song Clips, Warsaw University's Index of /multimedia/sounds.animals , the Acoustical Society of America's Animal Bioacoustics Sound Libraries page; and noted recorder Gordon Hempton may again post samples here.
Click the image to visit the extraordinary interactive Soundtoys site. By far the best use of Shockwave I've seen, the site features its equivalent of interactive java applets by a number of contributors. Interaction generates algorithmic-influenced image and sound.
More similar interactive shockwave and other material can be found at Steve Tanza's highly recommended Stanza and also at his http://www.thecentralcity.co.uk .
http://www.artsurfer.net links both to centralcity and to other interesting netart.
Julian Baker is another interesting creator of interactive audio/visual shockwave and other stuff. Click the image to visit Flatearth, also known as the Error 404:Page Not Found. Here is a limited online interactive demo of the interesting-looking commercial software Soundbox
Tune Toys is a collection of web-based algorithmic composition toys. Fascinating site!
Karlheinz Essl's interesting site has a realtime music generator which unfortunately only works for mac browsers, but also has algorithmic music examples, a realtime art generator, and more.
Discovery online's fractal music site has lots of music samples and, with Tune Toys, almost the only interactive online fractal music program I'm aware of.
Here's a weird one - Mark Kolmar's CHAOTIC ENTERTAINMENT. You play a cd in your own computer and the page algorithmically snips it up. To do this however you must download the VoyagerCD program [small] and put it in your browser folder. When you click one of the Play buttons on his page, your browser will ask what program to use and you must locate VoyagerCD for it. A customizable java applet of RGB noise changes with the sound. There's even a customizable sequencer for how it will snip, though some of the parameters still aren't clear to me.
Download Area of Computer Music Assisted Software
CAMUS, a downloadable celular automata music program, is available here, with info and some wav examples; more info and a midi example are here.
Ray Watson has a downloadable demo of his algorithmic composition software Orchaos on his site, which you can go to by clicking the icon. Different pages at the site stream various algorithmic midi files, and you can hear or buy more of his music at his mp3 page [ I liked especially 'Algorithmic Awareness, You']
Algorithmic Arts Corp.is John Dunn's site with nice free [and not free] downloadable software, info, cds for sale, and lots of music.
Click the image to visit Palle Dahlstedt's Living Melodies page with a couple nice mp3's created by the downloadable freeware alife composition program.
Fractal Music Composition Software is an excellent site with info about and links to downloadable software, info, midi and other examples, and a good links page.
The Fractal Vibes site has lots of original algorithmic music, the best algorithmic music links page I've found, a section on Fmusic - a downloadable program -, info, fractal images, and more
LMUSe: LSystems to Music has the program for download, info, and music files
The Fractal Music Project has info, music examples, and links to downloadable software
Click the image to see sites participating in the Fractal and Generative Music Webring
The Abstract Arts site has lots of algoritmic music, one of the best pages for downloadable software links, fractal images, and more
Michael Peters, creator of the interesting algorithmic pattern generator HOP, has a page of strangely algorithmically twisted audio clips available here.
The Algorithmic Music Stream
Experiments with fractal music
Dave Sag's site has some algorithmic music examples. His fractal music is now up on http://www.mp3.com/davesag
The Sound of Mathematics has a lot of interesting midi files
Fractal Music Gallery has images and music by various people
Isle Ex: Transmusic: Cellular Automata Music has a lot of examples and info as well as little animated-gif images of automata
"The Strange Beauty of Fractal Music"s site has a lot of algorithmic compositions up
AltaVista Search: Simple Query algorithmic music
The ALGORITHMIC COMPOSITION Home Page is down. Please email me if you know the site's current location.
Centaur Records CDCM series is a series of 50 or so computer music cds, most of which I haven't heard [you need to scroll down the page to find the CDCM section]
No page devoted to algorithmic music is complete without a reference to the highly recommended Iannis Xenakis, a relatively well-known composer in the classical tradition many of whose works employ algorithmic and aleatoric processes.
