Actively listening to music engages pattern recognition, prediction and working memory in the listener. It makes sense that this would disrupt concurrent 'creative' or more realistically, pattern matching tasks.
However, this experiment does not seem to cover non-concurrent listening to music, aka the Mozart effect. It could well be that listening to music enhances creative ability when subsequently not listening to music. So that regular music listening enhances ability to make creative pattern associations over the long term.
You're welcome! Yes, 'fewer controls' is probably better. Re: API/SDK, which would be more suitable for you, API or SDK? What platform do you use, unity/unreal etc., or are you talking about a web game? And would you want rendered audio or note data, such as MIDI from the API/SDK? And if SDK, what language, or maybe it's not important? Good to get ideas so I can plan the most useful delivery mechanism for the most people.
Its straight up webaudioapi making use of the fluid soundfont - see credits at bottom of website. I have not used tone.js though I have come across it.
Yes that's the plan for the next release. The site currently is just a demonstration of the tech. To be more useful as you rightly suggest it needs to be more of a tool where people can create songs or fragments and edit and save etc.
Thank you! The algorithms are universal and not tied to any particular modality (rhythm/melody/harmony) or particular tuning though they can exploit certain given relationships eg consonance if the algorithm is given knowledge of them. Exploring other tunings and making them available in the UI is definitely on the list. The core algorithm works by creating repetition/variation at multiple levels over time which is modality agnostic.
Thank you! You're right, though there are a few issues with the extra controls in FF right now, difficult to drag the volume sliders - only text input works.
Thank you and yes, good question. The generated compositions are completely royalty free and can be used commercially - they do not require any attribution (though attribution always appreciated). I should add it to the website.
This is really nice. It could be interesting to also add a thumbnail of the chosen image on the page. That would instantly give the effect that the background color/gradient had been chosen to match the image (which of course it had :) ).