Re: random music

[Neil Thornock]

Good luck with Strasheela!  I keep trying to crack my brain over it,
and it just has not happened yet.  Lilypond I get.  Python I get.
Mozart has been tough for me...

Josh Parmenter had been working on a SuperCollider-to-lily project.
I'm not sure where he's at with it, but if you know SC, that could be
a very attractive possibility for this type of work.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Mike Blackstock
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Me too I've long been interested in this; I'd like to be able to
> generate endless sight-reading exercises/material for guitarists,
> perhaps in the form of duos with the computer playing one of the parts
> just to keep things interesting. I've downloaded but haven't yet
> looked at Strasheela
> (http://strasheela.sourceforge.net/strasheela/doc/index.html),
> thinking it might be something useful for such a project. Plus I think
> Graham has expertise in it.
>
> -Mike
>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Martin Tarenskeen
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Mike Solomon wrote:
>>
>>> For what it's worth...
>>>
>>> I do a lot of exactly this: aleatoric composition in Lilypond.
>>
>> (....)
>>>
>>> I use Python for all of my aleatory and have Python spit out
>>> lilypond-parseable code.  There is no good reason for this aside from the
>>> fact that, for me, thinking creatively in Python is easier and faster than
>>> thinking creatively in Scheme.
>>
>> That's what I was thinking. Doing such things in Python is probably easier.
>> But the thought of a lilypond input file that produces random output files
>> all by itself just intrigues me.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Martin
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Neil Thornock, D.M.
The recent BYU Symphony Orchestra performance of Plutoids:
http://neilthornock.net/mp3s/plutoids.mp3
Assistant Professor of Music
Composition/Theory
Brigham Young University