Luckily for researchers, Eno's early relationship with SSEYO Koan and Intermorphic co-founder Tim Cole was captured and published in his 1995 diary " A Year with Swollen Appendices".Īt Intermorphic, we can talk with experience about two generative music engines (actually, music AND sound engines): For more on this and thinking behind it, read the in depth PalmSounds interview with Tim Cole. In 2017 we evolved Noatikl (and Mixtikl, Liptikl & Tiklbox) into one consolidated app range called Wotja. In 1995 Brian Eno (coiner of the term Generative Music) started working with SSEYO Koan Pro, work which led to the 1996 publication of his seminal title Generative Music 1 with SSEYO Koan Software.įast forwarding in time, in 2007 we then evolved SSEYO Koan into what became Intermorphic Noatikl (for more background on what happened between 19 see SSEYO History, SSEYO Before Tao, SSEYO after Tao).
#WOTJA MUSIC PLUS#
We started work on it in 1990 and the first publicly released app to use it hit the market in 1994, this being SSEYO Koan Plus (but we had versions out with Beta testers as far back as 1992). So, going back in history, the SKME was our first real-time music generation system. The SKME later evolved into the Noatikl Music Engine 3 (NME 3) and then that, in turn, evolved into the Wotja Music Engine (WME), all developed by us. It was developed by us, Tim Cole & Pete Cole of Intermorphic (see also Credits). See also the Sparks In Electric Jelly review of the Oramics exhibition at the British Science Museum with mentions of Generative Music 1 and SSEYO Koan Pro, and see the UK Science Museum Group copy!Īt the core of SSEYO Koan was the SSEYO Koan Music Engine (SKME). What he then said about generative music was eloquent and well observed and is still relevant today, so read what he said about it on the back of that release. So, you can imagine how honored we felt when an artist of Eno's stature took up the gauntlet and used Koan at the core of " Generative Music 1 - with SSEYO Koan". At that time computers mostly had pretty low fidelity sound cards, and generative music was a niche area (as is even the case now). Remember that? Back then we would hear people say "the Internet is only a fad", and "it will never take off". We also use terms like InMo Music, Reflective Music, Text-to-Music, Mindful Music etc.Īnyhow, let's take a quick journey, and go back in time. When it comes to Wotja, we increasingly use the term 'Ambient Generative Music' as we understand Wotja's generative capabilities are most often used to generate music of an ambient nature. These days 'Generative music' is really a catch-all term for lots of things and is sometimes also referred to as algorithmic music, stochastic music or aleatoric music.
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In 1995 whilst working with SSEYO Koan Pro (developed by us, the Cole Brothers), Brian Eno coined the term " Generative Music" to describe any music that is ever-different & changing, created by a system.īefore 1995 we had been referring to the output of SSEYO Koan as ' Koan Music', but 'Generative Music' is a more generic term and so we were happy about Eno choosing that to be used as a descriptor. Heads up: SSEYO Koan has now evolved into actively developed Wotja.
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