Thursday, January 15, 2009

Robot Composer

Robert linked to this Microsoft program that generates chord changes to accompany vocal recordings. It's, on the one hand, extremely hokey and ridiculous (there are two sliders, "Happiness" and "Jazziness," that the user can adjust to change the mood; hopefully the Pro version will provide controls for "Boogieosity" and "Pizazz"). But on the other hand, it's sort of like the music version of MS Chat, which gave us Jerk City.

Basically, it's stupid, but the stupidness means that someone could do something with it that is stupid but also pretty awesome, I rest my case.

2 comments:

DU said...

someone could do something with it that is stupid but also pretty awesome

tps12 said...

Wow, that's stupid alright. The robot accompanist sounds drunk.

My stupid idea was to use it on a "singing robot" synthetic vocal track, like a little robot ensemble.