Two weeks ago, Andrew Huang (a canadian music producer), added a video on his Youtube channel, asking viewers to end a melody he started.

He ended with 147 submissions, which extracted some interesting statistics from.

I've already said that I'm a huge find of Animusic, especially Pipe's dream, which Intel have already built in real life.

Today, I've discovered this incredible Marble Machine, created by Wintergatan with wood gears, springs and lots of lego pieces to program the main melody. It uses thousands of marbles to play a combination of vibraphone, bass guitar and a cardboard based drumset.

You can watch the two parts making to see how he constructed the whole machine.

So I'm a geek, and love math, and so have always stumbled across this kind of songs. I've already posted a Song from π , here's a reply with π's nemesis : τ¹.

1 : π is the ratio between a circle's circumference and it's diameter, roughly 3.14159. τ (pronounced tau) is the ratio between the circumference and the radius, so it's two times π, that is 6.28318.

This project features something I've thought of doing myself : record someone's voice (or even an instrument), detect the note frequencies to then write up the score of what is played. This could be great when improvising melodies.

You can help funding this project on Kickstarter

I'm a geek and developper, and so naturally I'm interested on Music software. And one of my preferred musical genre is Movies and Games soundracks. That's why I find this software trully amazing. It's really simple in its use, and yet can come up with amazing results in no time.

Here's a preview of what it does, and for those interested, below is a tutorial demonstrating all the features of this software . And for those really interested, you can get it for $300.

Okay a little bit geeky, nonetheless, I'll just share this one as I always loved genetic algorithms, and the rules around counterpoint are just fascinating. And for the devs watching this, here's a link to Nicholas' project on Github.

A class I listened to about math and music. Here's the first video of the series.

I've always liked when artist try to make a cover of a famous piece with a style twist. And on the subject, I discovered an album of Beatles go baroque by P. Breiner. Here, Michael Jackson's Thriller and Billie Jean are played in the style of Bach.

PV Nova is a french musician who does funny, yet accurate analysis of modern music styles. For my french readers, take a look at his videos, it's interesting and hilarious.

This video is a cover of Daft Punk's famous Get Lucky through a decade of music styles.

I've already talked about Animusic here, but discovered recently (thanks to my brother) this project made by Intel to bring Pipe Dream to life.