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Post by thro1237 » Tue, May 05, 2015, 1:41 PM UTC

fberg wrote: post #17

lispm wrote: post #15

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Even though there is still active development work on music composition applications in Lisp. Recently a new commercial application has been published: OpusModus http://opusmodus.com . It's written in Clozure Common Lisp and a port to Windows is planned. Symbolic Composer (LispWorks) still has new releases from time to time. PWGL (LispWorks) is still developed. OpenMusic now is based on LispWorks and has a Linux port…

And there's Overtone ( http://overtone.github.io/ ), based on Clojure and SuperCollider.

Is there a book/documentation on how to do the stuff mentioned in the Haskell documentation using Overtone?

Post by rrherr » Tue, May 05, 2015, 7:06 PM UTC

fberg wrote: post #14

While this book is an interesting and fairly comprehensive book on functional programming and music theory, I have the impression that the idea of algorithmic composition as expressed in this book is out of fashion now. Algorithmic composition was big in contemporary, "serious" music in the last part of the 20th century, but my contemporary composer friends seem to have left their Markov chains and Lisp algorithms an…

I've just started working on a statistical approach to generate banjo arrangements in the style of Earl Scruggs, father of bluegrass banjo. Like you said, statistical analyses of existing compositions and recomposition based on that. The difficulty so far is data acquisition & prep - I'm entering & annotating transcriptions manually. A lot of work for something that's unlikely to succeed, but it's fun. If I get any results worth sharing, I'll put it on HN.

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