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Music Programming and Algorithmic Composition |
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| Algorithmic improvisation by Øyvind Brandtsegg |
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| Now, you can compose and perform in the same few milliseconds. And the variations you can make on a single theme are infinite. |
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| Composer, performer, teacher |
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A Boston-area composer, Katarina Miljkovic investigates the interaction between science, music, and nature through collaborative musical performance.
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| A Rewriting Grammar for Complex Arpeggios |
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| An article by Kevin McGuire on ArpEgg, a software arpeggio authoring system based on a modified L-system grammar. |
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| Music Generated from DNA and Protein Sequences |
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| A collection of links to music generated from DNA and protein sequences. |
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| The Importance of Being Digital |
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| A transcript of a lecture by Lansky on the convergence of audio and computing technologies. |
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| Music Novatory Generative Music Theory |
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| An interesting, short article on a theory of music that parallels Chomsky's theory of language. |
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| Journal of Mathematics and Music |
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The Journal of Mathematics and Music is a new journal of mathematics, computation and music. The first issue is available as a free online sample issue.
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| The History of Algorithmic Composition |
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A brief history of algorithmic composition by John A. Maurer, IV.
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| Visual Art From Music |
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Edward Zajec has derived visual art from musical compositions, by Satie and others, through a set of transformation rules.
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| Create Your Own Music |
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This Web site has interactive tools that provide a unique learning experience for users, regardless of their musical training. Students of music composition can explore algorithmic composition, while others can create musical representations of models for the purpose of aural interpretation and analysis. Here, the algorithmic process is used in a creative context so that users can convert sequences of numbers into sounds.
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| A journey through complexity |
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| Cracking is inspired by Stephen Wolfram's A New Kind of Science. It features choreography by Dawn Kramer and lighting and video recording by Stephen Buck. Cracking takes us on a journey through classes of complexity in movement, body projection and sound. |
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| Algorithmic music composition reading list |
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| A reading list compiled by E. Nichols of Bloomington, Indiana. |
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| Microsoft Creates 'Instant Backing Band' for Singers |
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| Software that generates chord changes for a sung melody. |
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| Generative music based on gravity equations. |
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A really neat Java applet written by Thor ‘Fractal’ Kell.
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| Musical Instrument Played by Nature |
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The musical Sea Organ (morske orgulje) is located on the shores of Zadar, Croatia, and is the world’s first musical pipe organs that is played by the sea.
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| New music group calling for algorithmically generated scores |
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Ensemble 176 is dedicated to the performance of music composed by
computer programs and other strict algorithmic systems.
They are currently seeking pieces to perform on their first public concert,
which will take place in New York in the late summer or early autumn.
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| The Methodology of Generative Art |
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A history of generative art (music and other art forms) from Mozart to the present, by Tjark Ihmels and Julia Riedel.
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| An essay by Douglas Hofstadter |
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| "But the day when music is finally and irrevocably reduced to syntactic pattern and pattern alone will be, to my old-fashioned way of looking at things, a very dark day indeed. " |
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| An Algorithm to Turn Melodies Into Songs |
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| New software creates chord progressions to accompany singers of all abilities. The software, called MySong, was developed by Sumit Basu and Dan Morris of Microsoft Research, and Ian Simon, a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington, Seattle. |
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| Cycle based on 256 Elementary Rules |
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| A presentation by Katarina Miljkovic of the New England Conservatory of Music from the 2005 Wolfram Technology Conference. |
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| Whitney Music Box - Var. 2 - Harmonics of 20 Hz |
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| The Whitney Music box is a musical realization of the motion graphics of John Whitney as described in his book "Digital Harmony". It's programmed by Jim Bumgardner. |
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