I'm not a python fan, but I can use it, that might be useful, I'll at least install it and play and see how far it takes me before I get annoyed.woggle wrote:if you are a python person there are a lot of tools here. This almost got me programming again (but failed in the endghettosynth wrote:Cool! I suppose that I could use R, but it's not really the way that I like to work with music and it doesn't have the right libraries for "music", per se.woggle wrote:that has been my approach with software - for example to ask "How important is note order in Satie's piano music" or "what is the role of rhythm in Philip Glass" and then use statistical techniques to explore that - the method of surrogate data in particular. I just use Matlab to write everything - I am familiar with it from my days in research and it has the advantage of a huge mathematical user base sharing lots of code. If I were younger I would use Python but I couldn't be bothered learning it for my small applicationghettosynth wrote:[ However, to use a generative idea to explore a particular interest that results in a piece or set of pieces that are then fixed is interesting to me, whether as a producer or consumer.) http://web.mit.edu/music21/
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