The Republic of Nynex.
Thu, 20 May 2010 Megapolis 2010 is over! The final generation is
here. Here are the future plans for this project:
- I am going to make a web-only version and reduce the frequency to a daily run.
- A new generation will only advance once there are at least 5 ratings for EACH member of the current generation.
- The installation version will play compositions when idle instead of waiting for a click to play it anew.
- Change the scoring algorithm to sort samples by age and use their order in the sorted sequence as the score, instead of their raw recency. This will stop a phenomenon I noticed late in the game where having a bunch of samples that were 6 years old making the skew towards newer material practically invisible.
- Normalize scores and do a single roulette wheel selection with the chance of a sample being selected proportional to its score. Currently the mutation operator picks a random sample with a uniform distribution and then uses its score to decide whether to pick again.
- Come up with some objective component to the fitness operator in addition to user ratings.
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I have completed the final install of the Nynex software and all dependencies on the kiosk machine. Although the software has its flaws, I won’t be making any more changes until festival time! I’ve received a request regarding another live outing of the project in a performance context, but for the moment all focus is on MEGAPOLIS! Baltimore, look out!
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If you have been following the project on SoundCloud or Twitter, you will have noticed the appearance of actual output. This is the final stretch to Megapolis. The Google Voice and upload handlers are complete. You can call the number to leave a message and the message will be absorbed.
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The openFrameworks app is now posting Twitter announcements. If you follow
@nynexrepublic you will see one now!
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The Republic of Nynex has been accepted to be part of the
Megapolis Festival in Baltimore, May 14 - 16, 2010.
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At long last, the first test output of the Republic of Nynex is available
at SoundCloud.
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I started writing actual code as opposed to designs and specs. Exciting! Once I get a test case running, I’ll be sure to post it.
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Hey everyone, welcome to the Republic of Nynex progress blog! So far, there is not a whole lot of progress. If you aren’t following my git commits, here is the lowdown:
I’ve created an XCode project based on an openFrameworks example project and created modules for the different logical sections of code: SoundCloud, Twitter, Google Voice, voting, evolving, and UI. I’m just starting to create all the class interfaces for the non-fs1rgen sections. Once that’s complete, I will begin implementing the C++ parts, just enough to get to the point of making some noise.
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From here, you can follow the software's development, read the progress blog, find out where in-person demonstrations will be occurring, listen to the project's creations on SoundCloud, join the announcement mailing list, see information on audio contributors, go back to the index, become a Facebook fan, or follow the project on Twitter. Soon, you will be able contribute your own audio recordings, listen to new compositions and rate them, listen to previous generations of compositions, and read about the Republic of Nynex's creator.
