Algorithmic Music Composition With Linux, Part 1

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 1, 2010 3:19 PM EDT
Linux Journal; By Dave Phillips
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Over the next few weeks my articles will focus on software systems designed with special consideration for music composition by the use of algorithms. Wiktionary defines an algorithm as "... a precise step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that begins with an input value and yields an output value in a finite number of steps". By that definition algorithmic music composition is the process of using such procedures to generate values for the pitches, dynamics, rhythm, instrumentation, and other formal aspects of the composition.

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