I tend to agree,... "not too earth shaking". I've heard scuttle
budd about this on-and-off for about four years. Several steps 
above the RCA system at Princeton, used by Babbit and Carlos, 
which was programmed using the punch-card (the old 4-bit nibble?) 
system of years long since gone by. 

But this system is programmed for music composition. There have 
been several systems, they're all pretty cool. This one seems more
usable in a practical sense with its ability to function in 
multiple and more commonly used formats of today, such as (XML, 
MP3, MIDI,PDF) and operates in Debian and GNU/Linux OS's. Not bad.

OS's compatible and used with Csound,... hmmmm. Could have interesting
potentials and possibilities there. Maybe??

Been done before, they've just improved on it considerably. How good 
the music is, I'm not sure yet, need to hear some. Next on my list 
of things to do.


-Partev


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--- js0000@gmail.com wrote:

From: john saylor 
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Csnd] A weekend oddity
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 11:35:15 -0400

hi

On 7/1/12, john ffitch  wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/01/iamus-computer-composes-classical-music

interesting reading, but in my view, ultimately missing the boat
entirely. computers must be programmed to work. even if it is
'meta-programming.' to make an analogy, it seems iamus is like a
program that writes other programs; but instead, of generating
programs, it writes scores. really, not too earth shaking.

i guess there's some kind of 'evolutionary' process with the musical
phrases [more complicated programming] ...

maybe it's news worthy because some people think there's sufficient
quality in the program to put the score in front of progessional
musicians. either that, or it's one more last ditch effort to get
bodies in the auditorium ...

maybe i'm not understanding something[s] ...

-- 
\js [http://or8.net/~johns/] : "complete obscure contrariness"


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