Atmospheric Dissonance

Even though one would think that the first two sound mixes would sound very similar, since each of our songs from the first one correlated to a song in the second run (we chose a song for the second run that youtube suggested after listening to the first, and for the most part these suggested songs were from the same album of the same artist at the first one- and were stylistically very similar) - if you compare small chunks of the first song to small chunks of the second song, you will find significantly less entropy. This was because of the smaller time interval in the second run (3 seconds compared to 17 seconds).

So the randomness in the time interval really helped contribute to different levels of entropy, even when the song choice didn't contribute as much.

This is a very thoughtful assignment. Bravo. I very much like your thinking on how the performance interval influences entropy and how the number of songs playing also influences entropy. Very nice take on the "similarity" rating of you tube and the comparative testing of versions 1 and 2 through the algorithm.

I really like how you guys went beyond the obvious spec of the assignment and worked with randomness, uncertainty and entropy in unique ways. The idea of using YouTube's recommendations was brilliant, and that of choosing a song from a pool of 3 was a rather innovative idea as well.

Excellent mix! Although in the first and second composition, the songs your group choose are very different, they still sound quite harmonious when mixing together. Also, random sounds like coughing, tapping the keyboard, moving chair in while recording the first composition, which actually serves as a good transition from one song to the other.