{"id":29093,"date":"2012-06-18T23:23:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T23:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/18\/jtotheizzoe-you-are-listening-to-music\/"},"modified":"2012-06-18T23:23:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T23:23:09","slug":"jtotheizzoe-you-are-listening-to-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/18\/jtotheizzoe-you-are-listening-to-music\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itsokaytobesmart.com\/post\/25394005864\/darwintunes-music-evolved-natural-selection\">jtotheizzoe<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>You are listening to music, evolved. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t mean that in the sense that it\u2019s tomorrow\u2019s next big electronica style, but rather that the music itself has undergone <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natural_selection\">Darwinian selection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/darwintunes.org\/\">DarwinTunes<\/a><\/strong> is a project of Bob MacCallum and Armand Leroi from Imperial College London. They wondered if music might evolve by means similar to the way natural selection acts on genetic traits, with the best bits surviving and remixing into a more fit future tune.<\/p>\n<p>They <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/uncoolbob\/public-0k-taster\">began with this\u00a0cacophony<\/a>, a real mess of dissonance. Then they let listeners pick their favorite bits and allowed those loops to \u201cmate\u201d. What you hear above is the result after <strong>3,000<\/strong> generations of musical replication, and clear tendencies toward beat and harmony are evident. Of course, listeners come into this experiment with modern notions of what pleasant sounds mean, and real musical evolution took place over thousands of years and with hugely differing cultural influences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s a supremely cool melding of science and music, and a reminder that whether its cultural or genetic, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everythingisaremix.info\/\">everything is a remix<\/a><\/strong>. Check out Ed Yong\u2019s writeup at the link below, <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/uncoolbob\/sets\/darwintunes\/\">hear the whole evolution here<\/a>, and visit <a href=\"http:\/\/darwintunes.org\/\">DarwinTunes<\/a> for more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/notrocketscience\/2012\/06\/18\/tunes-without-composers-music-naturally-evolves-on-darwintunes\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NotRocketScience+%28Not+Exactly+Rocket+Science%29\">Not Exactly Rocket Science<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jtotheizzoe: You are listening to music, evolved. I don\u2019t mean that in the sense that it\u2019s tomorrow\u2019s next big electronica style, but rather that the music itself has undergone Darwinian selection. DarwinTunes is a project of Bob MacCallum and Armand Leroi from Imperial College London. They wondered if music might evolve by means similar to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/06\/18\/jtotheizzoe-you-are-listening-to-music\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}