This website I’m about to describe won’t necessarily be up for very long, and I only just learned about it over the past 24 hours, thanks to a Disquiet.com reader named Josh, so I want to mention it here expediently. The account that goes by whilemus on Reddit posted on July 22 a communal ambient experiment. It’s currently housed at whilemusic.net, but the announcement mentioned it won’t be up for a long time (“I’m planning to wind this down in a month or two due to server costs”). The idea is that the site is constantly pumping out music, and user votes nudge it in one direction or another.
“All listener feedback is combined to ‘democratically’ influence the direction the melody is going. You may vote as often and frequently as you like. Clip evolution is relatively slow, so it takes about 30 seconds to a minute to hear changes. Repeated negative votes will eventually lead to ‘rolling the dice’ and making changes more rapidly.”
Check it out at whilemusic.net.
