Hello, people.
Sorry if I'm off-topic, but I think maybe I could reach people here who would be interested on this.
I'm beginning a research at my university, and I'm looking for comments and suggestions from other people.
The research goal is to catalog correlations between kinds of music (that is, musics with similar structures) and the timbre of instruments that are selected by people to play them. Basically, we are going to play computer generated music to listeners, and ask them if the instrument used is adequate to the music. We expect to find, for example, that surf music is better with a lot of reverberation, punk rock is better with a lot of overdrive, blues is better with just a bit of overdrive, and so on...
The project will be developed in two parts: first we will measure the sensitivity that people have to variations on the parameters of the models of the effects. Then we will play the musics, and find the correlations.
It looks like the worst problem we will find is on the composition of the musics. I'm thinking about finding stochastic models to various styles of music, and than program a music generator. Does anybody here have any experience on generating random music in PD? What would be the best approach? Making an external program that export the song in MIDI, and bring it to PD?
...Thank you, bye!!