General Mixtape 9: stochastic fork ∞ guest mix by tsx

author: tsx
title: stochastic fork (if you find randomness in the road, take it)
tracklist: https://dynatrop.es/assets/gm-guestmix-tsx-2024-tracklist.txt
cover: Tina Frank

thanks for inviting me. i love mix

playbook:
- curate tracks. go backwards through listening logfile
- source tracks. download all tracks, do bandcamp purchases
- clip the source files to shorter chunks, auto-trim silence
- make a few quick python scripts using huggingchat
- compute audio embeddings for the ending and the beginning of all tracks
- pick a random start track, search the closest match via end-start embedding
- take the closest-end-start-match sequence and splice it all together
- double check that everything indeed does what you think it does
- do everything twice, foreground layer & background layer
- align and mix layers

there are more nice tracks that did *not* make it into the mix than there are nice tracks *in* the mix
thx everyone for all this amazing music, software, ideas & hope you enjoy! <3