Here’s a web-compatible version of the Processing noodles that were the initial cause of my Algo-Jazz Series of algorithmically inspired jazz and associated visualizations. The particular sketch shown here was done last year, so I’m rather late posting it here. And yes, it’s extremely simple – no big algorithmic advances to be found here, just …
I was recently gifted a ROLI Lightpad M Block, which is programmable with a language called Littlefoot. You can control the display of 15×15 pixels and behavior for sending/receiving MIDI messages based on touch and/or time. There is a challenge though: your code size is capped to just a few KB and you only get …
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 …
When I’m too tired to do anything else useful, but not quite tired enough to sleep, I sometimes open up an image editing program like GIMP, load up some kind of geometric image, and then smash it to death with filters and other transformations until it either looks more interesting/appealing or so hideous that I …
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 …
I have been periodically been asked for advice on getting started with algorithmic or automated composition. Unfortunately though, I have not been able to answer all of the questions I have received in this regard, and so I thought it best to address some of the more common issues here. The following points are what I …