MetaMix 1.1 (10/26/03)

algorithmic audio remixing software for Mac OS X and Windows

About MetaMix:

MetaMix is a cross between a musical composition, a digital audio player, an interactive experience, a software tool, and a work of conceptual art. Feed MetaMix your favorite audio track and listen as familiar music is transformed into a new listening experience. MetaMix superimposes new musical structures onto existing music by turning special mathematical integer sequences into new musical forms. These musical forms are used to "remix" the audio track you choose.

Download MetaMix:

Before you download MetaMix, please look over the README file.

For Mac OS X 10.1 and higher, click here to download.

For Windows 2000/XP, click here to download.

MetaMix documentation is available here or by clicking "help" from within MetaMix itself. The source code, available under the GNU General Public License, can be downloaded here.

What does it sound like?

Here is an example of MetaMix in action:

Source material:
C.P.E. Bach's Sinfonia in D Major, W.q. 183/1 (excerpt)
Columbia University Bach Society; Ken Masur, conductor
copyright (c) 2002 Bach Society, used with permission

Source: broadband stream || dialup stream
Mix 1: broadband stream || dialup stream || download
Mix 2: broadband stream || dialup stream || download
Mix 3: broadband stream || dialup stream || download
Mix 4: broadband stream || dialup stream || download

Use software such as iTunes or WinAmp to listen to this music, which is encoded in MP3 format.

What does it look like?

Screenshot 1 || Screenshot 2 || Screenshot 3

What was I thinking?

For a more detailed discussion of MetaMix, my motivations for creating it, and some possible interpretations of the work, see MetaMix: Between Unity and Collaboration (350k PDF).

Related Links:

• Transcodex, an exhibition at the Boston University Art Gallery and part of the 2003 Boston CyberArts Festival, will feature MetaMix. (April 26-May 4)
• MetaMix is also available online at Rhizome, runme.org, and VersionTracker.
• Some folks over at Press the Button got a bit carried away and used MetaMix to transform the entire Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album.
• An article about MetaMix appeared at neural.it (in Italian).
• Here is a copy of a poster / paper I presented on MetaMix at the 6th Annual Generative Art Conference in Milan, Italy, in December 2003.
• Someone (who goes only by the name "Corlin") has used MetaMix to create a remix of part of Cory Doctorow's novel Eastern Standard Tribe. It can be downloaded here.
• MetaMix was praised on MetaFilter blog.
• MetaMix is on view from January 21 through March 21, 2005 at the NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo as part of their exhibition "Art meets Media: Adventures in Perception."
  
• MetaMix is part of the soundtoys 2005 collection.

Contact Me:

For questions, comments, bug reports, feature suggestions, or other correspondance related to MetaMix, please contact me.