I've placed a new release of Common Music on ftp.zkm.de and
ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu containing a full port of the system to
Windows 3.1 under Franz ACLPC Common Lisp. The low level driver
interface for MIDI real time was implemented by Joe Fosco
(email ······@anl.gov). To get the latest release of Common Music,
ftp to either ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu or ftp.zkm.de and get the file:
ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu
pub/Lisp/cm.zip or pub/Lisp/cm.tar.Z
ftp.zkm.de
pub/cm.zip or pub/cm.tar.Z
For DOS take cm.zip; use cm.tar.Z for either Unix or Mac. (The file
macunix.sit.hqx in the same directory contains a Macintosh version of
the unix tar and compress utilities to read and write .tar and .Z
files on the Mac.) Documentation about Common Music is located in
the doc/ subdirectory. The tutorial is stella/tutorial/stella.rtf.
See Common Music's main README for more information about installing
and using the system.
Rick Taube
Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie
Ritterstr. 42 76137 Karlsruhe Germany
net: ···@zkm.de, ···@ccrma.stanford.edu
fax: +49 731 9340 39
vox: +49 731 9340 300
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Common Music is an object-oriented music composition language
implemented in Common Lisp and CLOS that runs on NeXT, Macintosh,
SGI, SUN and Windows/486 computers. Common Music supports both
algorithmic and non-algorithmic styles of music composition. It uses
Common Lisp's object system to implement compositional abstractions
such as scores, parts, scales, notes, rhythms, dynamics, musical
pattern objects, envelopes, algorithms, etc. These classes may be
used directly by a composer or further specialized to implement user
extensions to the system. Common Music contains a composition editor
called Stella that supports algorithmic score editing and music
output processing. A graphic version of the editor is currently
being implemented for the Macintosh. Common Music does not use a
specific DSP or sound card to produce music. Instead, it outputs to
many commonly available sound synthesis programs/protocols such as
CSound, MIDI (real time and file), Music Kit, Common Lisp Music
(sound and score file), Common Music Notation (Postscript music
manuscripting), and RT (sound file mixing). You can get Common Music
free of charge via anonymous ftp on ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu and
ftp.zkm.de. The mailing list ······@ccrma.stanford.edu has been
established for people interested in tracking developments in the
family of Lisp based music software under development at CCRMA and
ZKM. To join, send request to ··············@ccrma.stanford.edu.