Arlo, I'd be more interested in hearing about this. In music theory, you can assign harmonies to a given melody by matching the melody note to various degrees of a chord: root, third, 5th, and if you're more creative, 6th, 9th, etc. The trick is to at the same time honor chord-to-chord transitions that make theoretical sense in a given style.
I've been doing this using the digits in peoples' birthdates, see www.yoursongcode.com . There's been a lot of work done at my alma mater (after I left) UNT on algorithmic composition. There are so many variables, however, that I have my doubts that the results of such efforts are consistently aesthetically pleasing, albeit interesting from a technical / complexity point of view. Ron On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Arlo Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > My uncle, an accomplished musician, just told me he started learning > Python to apply different chord formations to arbitrary intervals (I do not > really understand the music theory, but that is what he told me), and he > seems to really like it. > -Arlo James Barnes > > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Mainly folks who did not start out programming for the sake of >> programming, but were led to it indirectly. >> >> Possibly better: their first use of computers was not programming. I.e. >> they did not have to use programming languages in the course work or job, >> but were self-motivated via, for example, building plug-ins for games or >> wordpress. >> >> -- Owen >> >> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Joshua Thorp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Which was the second generation of programmers? >>> >>> >>> On Nov 7, 2012, at 8:46 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: >>> >>> Nifty: Udacity has a HTML5/JS/CSS class that builds a game as the >>> structure of the class. >>> >>> That's interesting to me because I found so many of the second >>> generation of programmers got into programming via games. >>> >>> http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs255/CourseRev/1 >>> >>> >>> Education, is you getting sweet? >>> >>> -- Owen >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >>> >>> >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >>> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Ron Newman MyIdeatree.com <http://www.Ideatree.us> The World Happiness Meter <http://worldhappinessmeter.com> YourSongCode.com <http://www.yourSongCode.com>
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