Dada Bots Industries

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DadaBots: Socially Automated Dadaist Music Remix Bots by CJ Carr is a platform for ‘artificial artists’, namely bots that have been coded to generate remixes of songs and post them to soundcloud. The generative remixing also takes into account the need for song artwork which is done using generative-art strategies that sample the original artwork. The project has a tumblr and several bots are associated with the project such as chopshopshockshack, phased and confused, bonafide-slideglide-ride and becawwrdsaekva. Carr open-sources his code and recommends audio remixing software such as echonest, meapsoft, puredata and others. 

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Here's a photo of Cj taken during the Dadabots presentation at Boston's Music Hackday 2013. We had a blast this year!

(source from http://musicmachinery.com/)

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DADABOTS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT:

Phased and Confused is the newest Dadabot on Soundcloud. It creates ambient music out of other artists tunes. We have been working on designing this algorithm for about a year, and it's finally ready to blur the details for us!

This script is hacked together with Off Liberty, Paulstretch_Python, Soundcloud API, and Pil.

-ZVK + CORTEXELUS

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Can machines be artists too?. DadaBots is a platform for artificial artists. Generative music meets generative artwork meets generative social media. Possibilities are endless. Extreme fan interaction. Crowd-sourced decision making. Intelligent activity based on social insights. Oh no robots are taking over the world!!!!! No, this is still human art, just meta: Instead of playing the music, we play the artist. Check out our GitHub, start hacking.

Presented at Music Tech Meetup July 2013 at Cambridge Innovation Center

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DADABOTS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT:

chopshopshockshack belongs to the first generation of Dadabots living on Soundcloud. Its tracks all have (@) added to the titles to act as a breadcrumb trail identifying that the artist contributed to a Dadabots remix of a remix at some point.

This track is a re-edit of Little Dragon's "Little Man" using an Echonest Python script to spectrally reorder each beat in each section using a randomization process. The result is a dissociation of details while following the original song structure.

You can download the source code on the Dadabots Github.

https://github.com/cortexelus/dadabots

Listen to the original track before the (@) remix script created a new version:

http://soundcloud.com/littledragon/little-man

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