Dan Tepfer: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it as an example of algorithmic, reactive live music that blends programming with jazz performance.
What it is
A Tiny Desk concert in which pianist Dan Tepfer plays with a Disklavier player piano driven by a program he wrote that responds to his playing. He performs four pieces from his Natural Machines project.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2020 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends soulofmischief · 2020-07 · on “Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?”
Are you familiar with Magenta? [0] It's not real-time, but definitely an important area of research. Also check out Dan Tepfer [1] who is doing amazing work with an algorithmic approach to reactive live performances, with great call and response tactics. I myself am slowly prototyping a fully artificial AI band which can be orchestrated using very high-level musical ideas and a big helping of intelligent randomization and algorithms based on music theory. I've been prototyping in Andrew Sorensen's Extempore [2] and have laid much of the groundwork like melody/harmony/rhythm generation as well as basic modulation of these elements to create longer musical structures which utilize motifs in mu
Recommends voicedYoda · 2023-01 · on “Visualizing “The Art of Fugue””
I also enjoy Dan Tepfer's visualizations of audio and audio decay. This was his tiny desk concert: [this video]
Cites dantepfer · 2021-11 · on “FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet”
Hi everyone, Dan Tepfer here, co-creator of FarPlay. As a skeptic myself, I appreciate the skeptical tone of this thread. And I'd like to address a few points made here about FarPlay and low-latency audio. First, a little about me: I've been coding for most of my life (see [this video] for my NPR Tiny Desk Concert of my improvised algorithmic music project Natural Machines) but I'm first and foremost a musician. I make my living playing concerts around the world as a pianist. During the pandemic, I used JackTrip to perform remote livestream concerts with some of the greatest musicians in jazz: Christian McBride, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Ben Wendel, Gilad Hekselman, Fred Hersch, Antonio Sanchez, Me