I will be meeting with my uncle in a little less than a month, perhaps I could give him your email and he could tell you about it? -Arlo James Barnes
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Ron Newman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> > > > > ============================================================ > 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 >
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