How Generative Music Works

Tero Parviainen’s How Generative Music Works: A Perspective is a wonderfully interactive guide to the history and practice of generative music.

As John Pavlus puts it in Co.Design: “Think of it as an encyclopedia entry crossed with a mixtape….”

Whilst you’re exploring it you might like to run the Stochastic Drum Machine in the background as you read. A drum machine that generates random drum patterns, it’s capable of generating 12 trillion different variations.

Astounding.