Hello all, I just would like to make one more little comment about this post of mine: after reading an e-mail sent by one user asking me what's the big deal with this library of mine and why do I use Fortran instead of typing these scores of mine directly in LilyPond, I realized that I may have been very unclear about my compositional method.
All these scores are generated algorithmically, that is, I did not chose any of the notes or durations or dynamics individually. I "simply" write a Fortran code which contain all the structure of the piece and how it should be randomly filled with notes by the computer (that is, which rules it has to follow). The result is a score that is 100% precise within the rules I propose, and which took millions of calculations to be created (thus not being possible to be created by hand: one can throw a coin only so fast). Furthermore, my approach is to create generative acoustic music, meaning that every time you run my programs a new version of a same work is generated, different than any other version any one has. So I always ask the performers of my work to play a version only in a single concert before discarding it and generating a new one. So that is the main reason why I go through the troubles of writing and using these Fortran codes, and indeed there would be little point in using this library of mine if you are simply trying to engrave something. Unless you can algorithmically generate something, then there would be very little use for it. Best, Gilberto -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Fortran-library-for-generating-LilyPond-code-tp168112p169171.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
