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28 Pseudo Random Number Generation

Hello,

First up, apologies for not commenting for a little while, I plan on sitting down and go through the past couple of days of posts from everyone after this week is done. Everyone that I've skimmed through in the past week looks great, but I just haven't had the time to sit down and comment properly on something.

So today I did some maxing. From yesterday's pattern searching I needed a bit of chaos to balance things out. Playing a large amount of video games has always given me an interest in random number generation, so today I did a bit of reading a learning about how that works. This was a particularly useful video, and also an amazing maths related channel.



I had a go at making the middle square random number generator spoken about in this video. This is an interesting one because it "ends" depending on a seed. As you watch the numbers appear, they certainly look random, and the sequence of numbers can go on for a long time, but it is always finite. I set up the following numbers to output pitch, in a comparison to the ordinary max random object. Turns out they both sound pretty random :/
Check it out:

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It gets deeper but. Everyone understands the idea of randomness...but if randomness is traceable to a seed, is there anything in the universe truly random? Is the "seed" of the universe just the big bang? And which combination of random objects really does sound most like R2D2?

borrowing ideas

Hey everybody!

Tonight I experimented a bit with Alice's phase/loop situation! I don't know if this is in its final form. I sort of think it's the kind of audio that would be good in a museum setting, just a running loop while people are looking at visual art. I'll have to try doing this loop thing with the youtube vids also, rather than doing it myself. The benefit of doing it myself is that I can put one voice in one ear and the other in the other. ALSO I definitely should have used a nice mic and all that instead of just using my built-in.

If one day I become famous and then die I hope they have a museum retrospective with my writing desk, my fish drawings, selected poems/diaries/letters, my collection of analog telephones, some eccentric outfits I was known for, some handwritten manuscripts, etc. in it, and I hope they'll put this audio in it.

I thought it would eventually line up like at the beginning again, but I think I was mistaken because an hour's worth of loops later and it gets so close! But isn't quite lined up. Which is kind of beautiful in a way.

Here's the text I wrote for this:

"It’s not that I miss it exactly, but that I miss the time then, the old paths I walked, the dry leaves underfoot, the cutting of the wind. I miss the wind-tears on my cheeks, I miss the cold smell of Northern winter. The smell of wet pine by the lake. The library in February. Maybe I noticed the sun more then. I never notice it now. The way I was, the way I wore my hair, the way I dressed, the way I gestured with my hands. The timbre of my voice, a timbre that’s lost to me now. The utterances I reached for, which were different from the ones I reach for now. The thoughts I thought. The inhalations, exhalations, excitations of then, so different from now. So distant from now. Becoming distant, and distant, and distant again with every day."

There is no frigate like a book - for Soprano and Piano

Another little song, this time with noodley free-chosen vowels

There is no Frigate like a book,
to take us Lands away.
Nor any Coursers, like a Page
of Prancing Poetry.
This Traverse, may the poorest take
without Oppress or Toll.
How frugal is the Chariot,
that bears the Human Soul.

Emily Dickinson