Re: "Generative music" and "Algorithmic composition" - found something to play with!

[Philip Rhoades]

People,


On 2014-01-15 23:32, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
>
> David Kastrup kindly wrote a little Scheme script for me to generate
> random notes within a range and I have started using that to practise
> learning Classical Guitar and I think it is quite useful for learning
> to jump around the fretboard well.  It occurred to me that the next
> step would be to generate something that is a little more melodic or
> musical but still unpredictable so I started looking for stuff and
> found this:
>
>   http://www.scripthica.com/
>
> which is supposed to have an eBook available that allows stuff to be
> written in Java Script or Scheme.  Has anyone here done anything in
> this area? Is there any simple or otherwise stuff I could look at?


Separate from my arm twisting of Paul Morris to get something started in 
Scheme / Lilypond, I found this very nice stuff:

  http://alch.16mb.com/qgen2

and with a bit of bug fixing managed to get it going on my server - see 
here for a couple of test results (warning the web pages a very big and 
take a few seconds to display and some of the buttons don't work):

  http://pricom.com.au/qgen2/2014-01-16-t1/t1.html
  http://pricom.com.au/qgen2/2014-01-16-t2/t2.html

The output MIDIs are very nice and pleasant!

I used midi2ly to convert the files but predictably . . the Lilypond 
processing didn't go well . .

Anyway, I have asked the authors if they interested in replicating this 
web-based / PHP setup in Scheme . . I'n not hopeful but we'll see what 
they say . .

Regards,

Phil.
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