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- From: baker@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Charlie Baker)
- Newsgroups: comp.music
- Subject: Re: Computer scored music
- Message-ID: <7462@ucsbcsl.ucsb.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 22:21:41 GMT
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- In article <2236@blue.cis.pitt.edu> wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell)
- writes:
- >
- > Does anyone have software that will write music- I don't mean just
- > let a user write it, but the software itself write the music?
- > I heard some stuff by EMI, which emulates Mozart, and it was
- > amazing! Anyone got anything like this?
- The EMI programs were written in Common Lisp by David Cope , who is at the
- University of California at Santa Cruz.They use the standard
- A.I.techniques of pattern matching and generative grammar. The best
- introduction to the programs is Cope's book "Computers and Musical Style"
- published by A-R Editions. I picked up a copy of his source code at the
- last International Computer Music Conference (SanJose)..."major fun", as
- they say here in California! Really not much use to you unless you have a
- CommonLisp interpreter though, or are foolishly dedicated to porting
- software that SHOULD be in Lisp to some other language paradigm!
- Charlie
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- Charlie Baker
- Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
- University of California at Santa Barbara
- baker@waltz.ccmrc.ucsb.edu
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