> I would like to announce the Mondrian Project. Mondrian is an attempt > to create a text-based setting for writing and performing music. That's great! It's like a more traditional musically informed version of what I've been playing with for live performance for the last year or two. I've been wondering why there hasn't been more work in this area, text seems the perfect tool for macro based pattern building for melodies and such like. The way I do it (see http://www.pawfal.org/index.php?page=LsystemComposition and http://www.pawfal.org/patterncascade/ for some recordings) is to have single character for musical instructions ('o' for a note, '.' for a rest, '+' pitch up, '-' pitch down, '/' and '\' for panning etc) and I use iterative search/replace with tokens to represent different melody fragments (using an l system rule based approach). I've found that this is usable in realtime, it's great to copy/paste melodies and modify them live in a text editor to build up complex structures. I've also found you can mutate the melodies' rules and evolve them with a genetic interface for some really rapid changes. Oh yeah, and I've just released an online version of the genetic selection interface part too: http://www.pawfal.org/Software/livenoisetools/noisepatternlet/ :) cheers, dave
