Comments on: Nine Inch Niles – The Seattleward Spiral

By: houngabounga

houngabounga — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:31:51 +0000

Didn’t recognize a single song, feels mostly like gibberish. It’s a shame since the idea is good and the original tracks are too, I know it’s just an algorithm work but the samples should probably be played more than one at a time.

Godspeed.

By: Josh Millard, Musician › Monotoning with Echo Nest Remix

Josh Millard, Musician › Monotoning with Echo Nest Remix — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:00:00 +0000

[...] A question occurred to me a while back while exploring the Echo Nest Remix toolset (see previous NIN tomfoolery): [...]

By: snmt

snmt — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:29:35 +0000

clearly some of the commenters are not intimately familiar with this NIN album. i thought it was fun to see if my brain could keep track of where the actual song would be. there are funny little synch-ups, like if reznor’s voice gets higher the script uses roz’ voice. pretty much unlistenable, but very entertaining for what it is. thanks!

By: Nine Inch Niles – A Musical Experiment Gone Horribly Wrong – Random Videos | The Number Of The Blog – Fucking Metal

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:01:40 +0000

[...] love Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral as much as the next guy. So, I found the concept of Nine Inch Niles’ The Seattleward Spiral an interesting one… using a Python script, this guy basically recreated the album using clips [...]

By: Allan

Allan — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:27:35 +0000

Apparently Robert Silva who posted the #10 comment had even more boring time on his hands than the guy who did this. I think you wasted your own time Mr. Silva!

By: Nerd City » Blog Archive » mish mash (100% pure american edition)

Nerd City » Blog Archive » mish mash (100% pure american edition) — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:35:41 +0000

[...] I was excited when I heard someone had recreated Nine Inch Nails’ A Downward Spiral using only audio clips from Frasier. But after listening to it, I thought to myself, “No, that’s as shitty as I thought it would sound.” (joshmillard) [...]

By: Fuck_USA

Fuck_USA — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:17:14 +0000

whoever made that crap has too much free time on their hands. absolutely useless.

By: Robert Silva

Robert Silva — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:58:31 +0000

EPIC FAIL! Thanks for wasting my time asshole!

By: Burnt Bacon, Right?

Burnt Bacon, Right? — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:53:57 +0000

Awesome. not given it a listen yet (just a quick watch) – but fully understand what your trying to do, the difficult of making it ‘pleasent’, and the difficulty of the artist trying to find balance between what sounds good and what is pure to the idea.
Nice work – been thinking of playing with ech nest, but never got round to it – so many options for auto generating music.

This is almost the reverse of what I was doing with BB,R, but not knowing what the effect will be is half the fun. keep it up.

By: Josh Millard

Josh Millard — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:48:02 +0000

Its as if you had an “AHA” moment and tried so hard making it work but sadly it didn’t in this case…

To be clear, it was more of an “AHA” moment and trying not very hard at all to make it work. There are a dozen things that could in theory be done to make this sort of thing work better, some of which I’m going to try going forward, but Seattleward itself was a quick one-off just to prove that it could (however roughly) be done.

The afromb.py script is really neat but also really limited in its current form; a lot of work could be done to make it more powerful and flexible in how it goes about processing input and assembling output, and I hope to get around to doing some of that work to make it possible to operate on a more fine-grained basis for these sorts of projects.