Hi Torsten, > PS: Also, you are saying clearly that you do not plan an graphical user > interface for this software. Nevertheless, likely it would be relatively easy > to turn your whole software into a library for PWGL or OpenMusic.
That's an interesting proposition. Certainly some people might find having a popup window with object properties useful. And for sure, some of the graphical editors in those packages are great. I remain sceptical myself however--I just find programming directly, in a text editor, to be the most effective and efficient way of working. I realise that I'm in the minority there though. > If you still have some resources left from your AHRC grant then doing so > could greatly strengthen your impact (good for your REF and may even be > helpful for the next grant application). God forbid that we actually let our research decisions be so heavily influenced by government concepts of 'impact'.... > For a more advanced used of such features you would need to have a > conversation of your music representation (your slippery chicken object) into > the OpenMusic / PWGL music representation. You already did something similar > when defining your Lilypond interface (likely you are using Fomus, which > makes this interface much more simple to define), so you know that such score > format conversation is not defined on a single day, but is not too complex > either. I'm not using Fomus actually. I decided it would be easier (!?) to write my own interface to Lilypond. It turned out to be only a couple of days work actually. > Anyway, you are probably still not interested :) Ach, no, interested for sure. But still on the fence :) Cheers, Michael > > On 24 May 2012, at 19:04, Michael Edwards wrote: >> 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
