It is with great pleasure that I announce the open-source release of my algorithmic composition software "slippery chicken": http://www.michael-edwards.org/sc/
Please feel free to re-post to any potentially interested colleagues, students or mailing lists. Workshops introducing the software will be held in Edinburgh, UK, and Karlsruhe, Germany, in July 2012: http://www.michael-edwards.org/sc/workshops.html "slippery chicken" is an open-source algorithmic composition system written in Common Lisp which enables a top-down approach to music composition. The software was originally tailor-made to encapsulate the author's personal composition techniques, however many general-purpose algorithmic composition tools have been programmed that should be useful to a range of composers. The main goal of the project is to facilitate a melding of electronic and instrumental sound worlds, not just at the sonic but also at the structural level. Pure instrumental or electronic composition is of course possible with the system too. Techniques for the innovative combination of rhythm and pitch data--arguably one of the most difficult aspects of making convincing musical algorithms--are offered. Anyone interested in discussing the software is encouraged to join the Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/slippery-chicken Best wishes, Michael Edwards ___________________________________________ michael edwards office : (+44) (0)131 650 2431 mobile : (+44) (0)7952 153750 [email protected] MSc in Digital Composition and Performance http://michael-edwards.org/dcp University of Edinburgh http://michael-edwards.org/uofe Personal homepage http://www.michael-edwards.org ___________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Cmdist mailing list [email protected] http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist
