Hi,

missed the original question but I have been looking at using "generators" to produce music - I'm not looking for totally random things - my main goal is to produce structures with a human feel that I can play around with.

I tend to write externals for PD rather than doing stuff outside PD and use them to drive VST instruments but you could just as easily generate MIDI output.

I have been having fairly successful results using Markov Chains.

AFAICR Koan assigns different notes different probabilites

cheers

mark

-----Original Message----- From: pd-list-admin@iem.kug.ac.at [mailto:pd-list-admin@iem.kug.ac.at] On Behalf Of David N G McCallum Sent: 03 September 2002 15:21 To: Nicolau Werneck Cc: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Subject: Re: [PD] [OT] Sensitivity to timbre and adequacy of instruments to musics

Have you looked at Koan? (not a Pd thing) It's generative. I

think it outputs MIDI data. I don't have much experience with it, though, so I can't tell you much more than that.

. . David McCallum . Noise Maker . http://mentalfloss.ca/sintheta/ .

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Nicolau Werneck wrote:

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?

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