Originally posted: 02-Sept-2018 Last modified: Update 23-Dec-2018: if you want to see where this project went and the compositions that have resulted, check out the Algo-Jazz Series. I recently became a bit more interested in how the bass behaves in various styles of music, and eventually ended up looking at walking bass lines. After messing …
Update 09-Nov-2017: the github version of this now includes the other features I listed as to-dos here along with writeNRT working (it just required a Windows-compatible version). More complex and infinite music values should behave just fine, and there is also support for different ways of handling the “R” part of ADSR envelopes. Tom Murphy …
One of the strengths of the Euterpea library is the ability to generate complex musical values extremely concisely. Here I’m going to walk through an example of that, the results of which I then took and turned into a more serious composition. Here’s the motif I started with: x1 = c 4 en :+: g 4 …
Part of my work as a postdoc within the Yale Haskell Group in 2014 involved refining the playback implementation for the Euterpea library. As of Euterpea 2.0, the default MIDI playback implementation, play, supports sequentially infinite musical structures, but at the expense of allowing a time leak. This post will explain how that situation came to be and …