Pd for Airports (Creating Ambient Music in Pure Data) | Simon Hutchinson

Create a patch for generative ambient music in Pure Data (Pd) in the style of Track 2 from Brian Eno's "Music for Airports."

Brian Eno coined the term "ambient music" to describe music that is "intended to induce calm and a space to think," and "as ignorable as it is interesting." We can make a simple patch in Pd that recreates one of Eno's techniques, creating a system that endlessly generates ambient music for us with the notes that we choose.

Give it a try and make your own interesting and ignorable music.

#puredata #ambient #generativemusic

0:00 Opening demo
1:13 Introduction, What is "Ambient Music?"
3:14 Making one synth tape loop
8:46 Prepping for duplication
10:35 Making multiple loops
14:47 Revisiting the demo patch, Ideas for expansion

Tero Parviainen's introduction on "How Generative Music Works": https://teropa.info/loop/#/title

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