Fetch a random genre or genre story.
Much like Binary Jazz itself, the genrenator is the product of a bunch of us chatting and tossing ideas around and something sticks. In this case, it came from a discussion about obscure genres we didn't know existed, veered to the Every Noise At Once database that Spotify uses to inform their genres and playlists, and ended with the question "what if we could create an API that served random genres?"
We used Every Noise At Once as a base to take parts of genres from, then created internal catalogs of each genre "fragment". These catalogs are broken into instruments, beats, adjectives, prefixes and suffixes, regions, and genres. We also used Every Noise to inform our list of patterns which are used to combine the above fragments in unique ways.
The real fun of the Genrenator is the public API hosted on binaryjazz.us. If you're a developer (particularly one in need of a random genre or story about a genre), you can use the endpoint to fetch a random genre or genre story at https://binaryjazz.us/wp-json/genrenator/v1.
