Computers and Music
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
I just posted a brief paper excerpt which discusses the benefits of Ergonomics in the workplace. Click here to view.
I've posted some notes I made while taking a course in Computers and Society in 2003 at SFU. Click here to view.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
If you're into jazz and computer programming, this might be of interest to you: Markov Chains as Tools for Jazz Improvisation Analysis (click here)- a Masters thesis by David M. Franz. Found via Google and an article here.
Found an article "Hacking Perl in Nightclubs" (click here to read) by programmer/musician Alex Mclean who states that he has been using his computer, and a language called Perl, as his exclusive musical instrument for the past few years. From the conclusion to his article:
This might all sound like a rather strange and tortured way of making music, but actually the opposite is true. It's not strange, there is structure behind every piece of music, and it's quite normal for composers to think of the composition of this structure in terms of a defined process. The classic example is of Mozart using dice to generate tunes. It's not tortured either. Thanks to Perl, music generating code can be extremely fast to work with.
Thoughts of an aspiring jazz musician and computer programmer.
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