Dave, > [...] 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. I agree completely. Entering a score is essentially a matter of symbol manipulation, and I feel that text editors are usually the right tool for this sort of job. > 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 can't believe I missed this --- I actually visited your website before I started on Mondrian because I remembered your performance at LAC2005, but I only saw your sound generators in Lisp at the time. It sure looks like we've been thinking along the same lines, albeit with a different focus. > Oh yeah, and I've just released an online version of the genetic selection > interface part too: > http://www.pawfal.org/Software/livenoisetools/noisepatternlet/ Ah, hours of fun! Peter
