Jay Alfred's Ragtime

Jay Alfred's Ragtime's music was generated by interpreting the following strings as packs of cards and simulating with them the following “Beggar my Neighbour” games:

Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening
Do I dare Disturb the universe?
And for a hundred visions and revisions
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
And I have known the arms already, known them all
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so digress?
Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!
And I have known the arms already, known them all
Is it perfume from a dress
That makes me so digress?
Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets
In the room the women come and go

As you may have noticed, the above line are a ragtag arrangement of verses from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T. S. Eliot:

Instruments are: contrabass, two drumkits, honky-tonk and electric pianos.

Duration is 92.693s

The music generation repository is here. (It is still to be updated with the Beggar-my-neighbour generator...)

Jay Alfred's Ragtime's video was produced via the latest version of Feedpovray by running the following command:

read -r -d '' PIGMENT <<- EndOfPigment
                          pigment {
                                    marble
                                    turbulence 0.5
                                    lambda 1.5
                                    omega 0.8
                                    octaves 5
                                    frequency 3
                                    color_map {
                                      [0.00 color Red]
                                      [0.33 color Blue]
                                      [0.66 color Yellow]
                                      [1.00 color Red]
                                    }
                                    rotate 45*z
                          }
EndOfPigment
feedpovray --input=000000445566 --y=4 --z=8 --output=000000445566.pov \
               --prologue=prologue.001122222222.b \
               --pigment="$PIGMENT"

In this version of Feedpovray, the quantum object is either a sphere or a cube with a unit radius or side.

The resulting Povray script was edited as follows:

    camera {
      // ...other statements
      right x*1.77777777777777777777
      location <230+clock*28090, 230+clock*28090, 230+clock*28090>
      angle 2
      // ...other statements
    }
    global_settings { ambient_light LightBlue }
    light_source {
         <310,-10,310>
         color OldGold*2
    }
    background { color MidnightBlue }

92.693*30 +19 = 2800 PNG frames were produces, and then turned into a video via command

ffmpeg -framerate 30 -patterntype glob -i '*.png' -i “$1” -c:a aac -b:a 128k -c:v libx264 -r 30 -pixfmt yuv420p -filter:v “fade=in:st=0:d=5, fade=out:st=87.693:d=5” video.mp4

where “$1” is Jay Alfred's Ragtime's audio data.

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Jay Alfred's Ragtime's videoclip is also available on Open Tube