Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-17 Thread James Harkins
Philip Rhoades phil at pricom.com.au writes: People, David took this discussion off-list and then accused me of not having the guts to respond on-list . . In an ideal world, I'd suppose that if one needs to preface an email with grade-school playground ethics, one *might* take that as a

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: \version 2.18.0 \score { { $(let ((random-state (seed-random-state (current-time (make-sequential-music (map (lambda (x) (let ((idx (random 12 random-state))) (make-event-chord

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
David, On 2014-01-16 18:08, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: \version 2.18.0 \score { { $(let ((random-state (seed-random-state (current-time (make-sequential-music (map (lambda (x) (let ((idx (random 12 random-state)))

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, I get a GUILE error on line 5 $(let I don't. Copy and paste error? $@(let but that didn't work either (obviously I don't know what I'm doing . .) Obviously. $ splices a single expression (which is what make-sequential-music

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
David, On 2014-01-16 22:42, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, I get a GUILE error on line 5 $(let I don't. Copy and paste error? $@(let but that didn't work either (obviously I don't know what I'm doing . .) Obviously. $ splices a single

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, On 2014-01-16 22:42, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, I get a GUILE error on line 5 $(let I don't. Copy and paste error? $@(let but that didn't work either (obviously I don't know what I'm

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
David, On 2014-01-16 23:24, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, On 2014-01-16 22:42, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, I get a GUILE error on line 5 $(let I don't. Copy and paste error? $@(let but that

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, So your first statement: I get a GUILE error on line 5 $(let was wrong, and my guess I don't. Copy and paste error? concerning your use of Paul's converted code was correct. Like with _any_ material prepared for an older version

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
David, On 2014-01-17 00:22, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, So your first statement: I get a GUILE error on line 5 $(let was wrong, and my guess I don't. Copy and paste error? concerning your use of Paul's converted code was correct. Like

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, On 2014-01-17 00:22, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, So your first statement: I get a GUILE error on line 5 $(let was wrong, and my guess I don't. Copy and paste error? concerning your use

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
David, On 2014-01-17 01:28, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, On 2014-01-17 00:22, David Kastrup wrote: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au writes: David, So your first statement: I get a GUILE error on line 5 $(let was wrong, and my guess I

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
with the missing entire line and it's associated bracket Copy and paste error. The failure to actually test what was quoted is called copy and paste error. Here is what you wrote in full: From: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au Subject: Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Paul Morris
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Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Paul Morris
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Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
Paul, On 2014-01-17 03:44, Paul Morris wrote: Philip Rhoades wrote maybe we (and by we I mean you - at least initially) could enhance this little bit of code to do what my Ruby script was doing? Hi Phil, Unfortunately I can't afford to take this on. Sounds like it might be a nice

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-16 Thread Philip Rhoades
, Here is what you wrote in full: From: Philip Rhoades p...@pricom.com.au Subject: Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:58:28 +1100 (8 hours, 56 minutes, 8 seconds ago) Reply-To: p...@pricom.com.au [...] I get

Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, David Kastrup kindly wrote a little Scheme script for me to generate random notes within a range and I have started using that to practise learning Classical Guitar and I think it is quite useful for learning to jump around the fretboard well. It occurred to me that the next step

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.01.2014 13:32, schrieb Philip Rhoades: Is there any simple or otherwise stuff I could look at? http://lilypondblog.org/category/using-lilypond/advanced/ ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades
Urs, On 2014-01-15 23:38, Urs Liska wrote: Am 15.01.2014 13:32, schrieb Philip Rhoades: Is there any simple or otherwise stuff I could look at? http://lilypondblog.org/category/using-lilypond/advanced/ The only thing there that I could see was: Programmatically Generating LilyPond

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-15 Thread Urs Liska
Am 15.01.2014 13:58, schrieb Philip Rhoades: Urs, On 2014-01-15 23:38, Urs Liska wrote: Am 15.01.2014 13:32, schrieb Philip Rhoades: Is there any simple or otherwise stuff I could look at? http://lilypondblog.org/category/using-lilypond/advanced/ The only thing there that I could see

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades
Urs, On 2014-01-16 00:01, Urs Liska wrote: Am 15.01.2014 13:58, schrieb Philip Rhoades: Urs, On 2014-01-15 23:38, Urs Liska wrote: Am 15.01.2014 13:32, schrieb Philip Rhoades: Is there any simple or otherwise stuff I could look at?

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-15 Thread Paul Morris
giving your fingers/mind something new to figure out. As you progress you can reduce the number of repetitions until you're playing it straight through. Cheers, -Paul -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Generative-music-and-Algorithmic-composition

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades
Paul, On 2014-01-16 01:58, Paul Morris wrote: Philip Rhoades wrote It occurred to me that the next step would be to generate something that is a little more melodic or musical One simple thing you can do is to only work with the notes from one key at a time. And I think this makes sense

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-15 Thread SoundsFromSound
that...I'm going to play around with it later today. :) - composer | sound designer LilyPond Tutorials (for beginners) -- http://bit.ly/bcl-lilypond -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Generative-music-and-Algorithmic-composition-tp157896p157952.html Sent from

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-15 Thread Paul Morris
-list 24 } } -Paul -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Generative-music-and-Algorithmic-composition-tp157896p157955.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ lilypond-user mailing list

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades
Paul, On 2014-01-16 07:22, Paul Morris wrote: SoundsFromSound wrote Paul, that is a great little bit of code! Thank you for sharing that...I'm going to play around with it later today. :) Glad you like it, but David Kastrup gets the credit for it:

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-15 Thread David Kastrup
Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com writes: SoundsFromSound wrote Paul, that is a great little bit of code! Thank you for sharing that...I'm going to play around with it later today. :) Glad you like it, but David Kastrup gets the credit for it:

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition - found something to play with!

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, On 2014-01-15 23:32, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, David Kastrup kindly wrote a little Scheme script for me to generate random notes within a range and I have started using that to practise learning Classical Guitar and I think it is quite useful for learning to jump around the

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition - found something to play with!

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, On 2014-01-16 17:39, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, On 2014-01-15 23:32, Philip Rhoades wrote: People, David Kastrup kindly wrote a little Scheme script for me to generate random notes within a range and I have started using that to practise learning Classical Guitar and I think it

Re: Generative music and Algorithmic composition

2014-01-15 Thread Philip Rhoades
David, On 2014-01-16 07:43, David Kastrup wrote: Paul Morris p...@paulwmorris.com writes: SoundsFromSound wrote Paul, that is a great little bit of code! Thank you for sharing that...I'm going to play around with it later today. :) Glad you like it, but David Kastrup gets the credit for