I have a 23-year-old nandy conure called Binky. He has a remarkable capacity for understanding rules just well enough to find away around them. He regularly gets told “no” for being loud – but only when he’s loud with his voice. Playing with toys is ok and something I try to encourage. In fact, he’s …
I was recently gifted a ROLI Lightpad M Block, which is programmable with a language called Littlefoot. You can control the display of 15×15 pixels and behavior for sending/receiving MIDI messages based on touch and/or time. There is a challenge though: your code size is capped to just a few KB and you only get …
Originally posted: 02-Sept-2018 Last modified: Update 23-Dec-2018: if you want to see where this project went and the compositions that have resulted, check out the Algo-Jazz Series. I recently became a bit more interested in how the bass behaves in various styles of music, and eventually ended up looking at walking bass lines. After messing …
One of the strengths of the Euterpea library is the ability to generate complex musical values extremely concisely. Here I’m going to walk through an example of that, the results of which I then took and turned into a more serious composition. Here’s the motif I started with: x1 = c 4 en :+: g 4 …
It was recently suggested that I should start a list of important conferences that should be on the radar for people interested in getting into computer music. This page is my attempt at such a list and may be updated over time. Last modified: The International Computer Music Conference – this is one of the most …
I have been periodically been asked for advice on getting started with algorithmic or automated composition. Unfortunately though, I have not been able to answer all of the questions I have received in this regard, and so I thought it best to address some of the more common issues here. The following points are what I …