Dittytoy consumer [srtuss] has recreated probably the most influential works of digital music in a sublime nineteen kilobytes of Javascript code. The recreation of Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygene Part IV on the Dittytoy platform, at the moment in beta, performs stay proper in your browser. Dittytoy empowers customers to create generative music on-line utilizing a easy Javascript API. Syntax of the API is loosely based mostly on that of Sonic Pi, a code-based music creation and efficiency device.
“Oxygene (Half IV)” was recorded by Jean-Michel Jarre in 1976. It was Jarre’s most profitable single, charted on the highest ten in a number of international locations, and was extra not too long ago featured within the Grand Theft Auto IV online game. Within the Nineties, famed digital music innovator Brian Eno used the time period “generative music” to explain music generated by an digital system comprising ever-changing parts that could be algorithmic or random.
Recreation of Jarre’s work required modeling the Korg Minipops 7 drum machine, one of many devices offered in our slew of open-source synthesizers.
