groove·the·o·ry (grüv-ˈthē-ə-)

noun

1.    The idea that a rigid and sufficiently detailed system of coding and classification for sound samples will result in many, potentially unknown, musical corollaries.

 

Applications:

·         A notation system for compositions, using multi-timbral sound samples as “notes”

·         A Creative Artificial Intelligence that can generate music from sound samples, mimic human compositional techniques, and learn to produce music pleasing to humans by collecting responses to prior compositions (InfiniteDub)

·         A massive, distributed, peer-to-peer library of codified sound samples (TryAndBurnThisOneDown)

·         A “player” that will render musical pieces into audio locally, using the composition notation and peer-to-peer library

·         “Composer tool software”, allowing for visual construction of composition notation

·         Sound sample collection tool (ninjam, ninbot)