Constraint Programming Using Screamer
A few years I ago I had briefly experimented with the Screamer library in the context of automatic test case generation from
Generating Melody to Fit Harmony
There are two common approaches to composing music. One involves synthesizing a suitable chord progression first and then layering melody
Reading and Transforming a MIDI File
Sometimes it can be interesting to take a MIDI file and transform the score it represents. For example, you can
Motifs and Transformations
One of the creative approaches to synthesizing music is to start with a short melodic motif and then apply various
Rhythmically Odd Rhythms
In the excellent book The Geometry of Musical Rhythm – What Makes a ‘Good’ Rhythm Good? by Godfried T.Toussaint, there
C++14: Return Type Deduction for Normal Functions
In C++11, a function must specify its return type in one of the following two ways: int aFunction(int arg) {
User-defined Literals in C++
C++11 introduced user-defined literals, allowing programmers to define special suffixes that can be associated with the built-in literal types: character,
Book Review: Common Lisp Recipes – A Problem-Solution Approach
Last Saturday (March 12, 2016), I got my most eagerly awaited book from Amazon.com. Yes, I am talking about Common
Converting Text to Music
Converting text to music can be fun. Opusmodus has a few built-in functions to work with text. Look up the description
A GUI Front-end for Cellular Automata Generator
In my last post, I explained how we can use Cellular Automata (CA) in Opusmodus to create music. For today’s post,