My "Lisp With Kenny" offering has brought me in touch with folks
interested in some neat projects, one of which is algorithmic music
composition.
(a) Anybody with links/resources/etc on that? I see a ton of music stuff
on Cliki (includng Symbolic Composer, another commercial product! <g>),
but especially in discovering any NYC folks doing that. Speaking of which...
I dug an old name out of the address book, a gent seriously into music
composition who I spent a couple fours with long ago looking over
Symbolic Composer. He has a cool site:
http://www.assemblage.org/index.html
He turned me on to a potentially exciting development for CL. Symbolic
Composer came out for Windows a month ago:
http://www.mracpublishing.com/
Guess what S/C is authored with?
"Lisp is busting out all overrrr, the birds are singing in parentheses"
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From: Gareth McCaughan
Subject: Re: Lisp With Kenny: "The hills are alive, with the sound of algorithms"
Date:
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Kenny Tilton wrote:
> My "Lisp With Kenny" offering has brought me in touch with folks
> interested in some neat projects, one of which is algorithmic music
> composition.
>
> (a) Anybody with links/resources/etc on that? I see a ton of music
> stuff on Cliki (includng Symbolic Composer, another commercial
> product! <g>), but especially in discovering any NYC folks doing
> that.
I have some reason to believe that David Cope's rather
impressive "Experiments in Musical Intelligence" is
written in Lisp. He's quite some way from NYC, though.
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Gareth McCaughan wrote:
> Kenny Tilton wrote:
>
>
>>My "Lisp With Kenny" offering has brought me in touch with folks
>>interested in some neat projects, one of which is algorithmic music
>>composition.
>>
>>(a) Anybody with links/resources/etc on that? I see a ton of music
>>stuff on Cliki (includng Symbolic Composer, another commercial
>>product! <g>), but especially in discovering any NYC folks doing
>>that.
>
>
> I have some reason to believe that David Cope's rather
> impressive "Experiments in Musical Intelligence" is
> written in Lisp. He's quite some way from NYC, though.
>
Thx, nice link.
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From: Gareth McCaughan
Subject: Re: Lisp With Kenny: "The hills are alive, with the sound of algorithms"
Date:
Message-ID: <87pth6dklz.fsf@g.mccaughan.ntlworld.com>
Kenny Tilton wrote:
[I said:]
>> I have some reason to believe that David Cope's rather
>> impressive "Experiments in Musical Intelligence" is
>> written in Lisp. He's quite some way from NYC, though.
[Kenny:]
> Thx, nice link.
I'm not sure whether that's a sarky way of pointing out
that I didn't give you a URL, but here is one anyway:
http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/Emmy.html
And a book reference:
David Cope
Virtual Music
MIT Press
ISBN 0-262-03283-X
Cope's books in the "Computer Music and Digital Audio Series"
published by A-R Editions may have more detail about the
inner workings of his software than "Virtual Music" does.
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Gareth McCaughan wrote:
> Kenny Tilton wrote:
>
> [I said:]
>
>>>I have some reason to believe that David Cope's rather
>>>impressive "Experiments in Musical Intelligence" is
>>>written in Lisp. He's quite some way from NYC, though.
>
>
> [Kenny:]
>
>>Thx, nice link.
>
>
> I'm not sure whether that's a sarky way of pointing out
> that I didn't give you a URL, but here is one anyway:
>
> http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/Emmy.html
>
> And a book reference:
>
> David Cope
> Virtual Music
> MIT Press
> ISBN 0-262-03283-X
>
> Cope's books in the "Computer Music and Digital Audio Series"
> published by A-R Editions may have more detail about the
> inner workings of his software than "Virtual Music" does.
>
<g> Thx, again! And my first Thx were sincere; I found Mr. Cope on the
first Google.
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Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message news:<························@twister.nyc.rr.com>...
> My "Lisp With Kenny" offering has brought me in touch with folks
> interested in some neat projects, one of which is algorithmic music
> composition.
> (...)
> "Lisp is busting out all overrrr, the birds are singing in parentheses"
Speaking of which, I once had the silly idea of encoding music as
parentheses. The open parenthesis stood for "play a note, and push
(move up one step in the diatonic scale)", and the close parenthesis
stood for "play a note, and pop (move down one step in the diatonic
scale)". This, of course, does not take into account the chromatic
scale, or variations in note length, and other details. However, even
such a simple function as
(defun music (n)
(if (= n 0) '()
(loop for i from 0 to (- n 1)
collect (music i))))
produces some pretty cool Gregorian chanting. :-)
Sebastian Stern