canopy360 >> ( infinite radio ,.,

Who?
Your Infamous Harp (website)

What in the?
canopy360 is a garden that grows new and interesting music. We breed separate strains together to create new species entirely. Weaker species die off with the help of natural selection and we are left with a luscious crop of beats to indulge in.

How does it decide what to play?
In hunt mode, canopy360 randomly selects loops from the database within similar harmonic keys, along with a variation that mixes them together. Your objective is to hunt for the best-sounding combinations and save into the database for others to rate.

In pick mode, the goal is to rate the best combinations according to your personal preferences. canopy360 selects randomly from the top 50% of new or highest-rated combinations, insuring that all combinations get a chance to play, but sub-par tunes will eventually be voted off.

Why 360?
Aside from the symbolism of infinity that a circle invokes, all the music is set at 180bpm. It's a flexible tempo, and a mathematically round number that allows easy calculation in many ways, eg. 180 / 60 seconds = 3 beats per second

What is spawn mode?
You can spawn any loop or variation from their page so that you can test how they sound in the field.

How do variations work?
Variations are arrangements of loops, 32 measures each-- they are essentially sheet music for a robot DJ, with the added ability to be seeded with random variables, such that can influence and create underlying rhythmic patterns by chopping, mutating and glitching the preexisting loops.

Kept Blue is currently overseeing the design and testing of variations, and creating algorithms to harness both chaos and order in harmony, while striving to maintain a functional connection to canopy360's underlying scientific methods. It is important to us to minimize the influence of our artistic perspective on the resulting sound, so we welcome suggestions on how to improve and balance the variations at the conceptual level.

Due to technical limitations in Flash running in the browser, the possibilities of real-time sound manipulation are stunted in comparison to lower level programming languages (which enable professional sound mixing tools like Ableton and Reason). However, there is still plenty of room for innovation.