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Also a huge Eno fan here. Put together, I probably have listened to Music for Airports, Another Green World, Taking Tiger Mountain and Discreet Music more than any other artist. Maybe Philip Glass comes in at a close second.

Anyways, in 2016, Tero Parviainen (@teropa) shared this really cool long-form exploration called "JavaScript Systems Music – Learning Web Audio by Recreating The Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno" that I enjoyed tremendously (and I don't even like Javascript!)

Check it out at: https://teropa.info/blog/2016/07/28/javascript-systems-music...

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Thanks for sharing. I've been on a path of algo music with JavaScript (I also do not enjoy JavaScript) and have mostly just guess-and-checked my way through it. I'm going to work through this as my advent of code project.

Yesterday I put up a little dictionary of synth sounds that I'm building out to help me on my journey (https://synthrecipes.org). The goal to be able to export any particular sound in a format for different live coding environments. Sounds are defined in a JSON format like https://synthrecipes.org/recipes/acid-bass.json. I'll open source it today so other can submit sounds.

Edit: I've open sourced the repo so others can improve existing sounds and add new ones. https://github.com/bradly/synth-recipes/tree/main

Did you know https://play.generative.fm/browse

I did not! Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Is there a way to see the source for the sounds?

That's really cool.

Music is funny. I played the closed hi-hat sound (https://synthrecipes.org/#closed-hi-hat) a couple of times and my brain instantly started playing AC/DC's, Back in Black. I probably haven't listened to that song in 15 years and now I'm shuffling AC/DC on Spotify.

Also, the "Sub bass" link might be broken:

https://synthrecipes.org/#Sub-bass

> Also, the "Sub bass" link might be broken

Thank you! It is now fixed <3

Check out his work with Jon Hassel and if you feel like it 'Pearl'.

Both are - in my opinion, of course - awesome. Though the Jon Hassel collaboration may take a while to grow on you.

And Apollo, which is among his best works.

I'm going to try gain with Eno after reading your post, I just find it incredibly boring. I wish I didn't.

When you feel bored listening to this sort of music you are already half way to the Alpha state (I heard it called that by Quincy Jones). Go a little further, and when your brain fully disengages you can use the space/quiet/calm to go to new places and come up with some amazing ideas.

I don't think my ADD can cope.

Meditating to the first track on Ambient 1 is one of the only things that is guaranteed to relax me when I'm overstimulated.

Mine copes just fine!

Apollo and The Pearl would be great additions to that list (Apollo is perfect)

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