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,
Using Cellular Automata to Generate Music
Cellular automata are a powerful computational formalism. Stephen Wolfram’s book A New Kind of Science provides a thorough study of these
Organum in Music
When two or more voices in a song follow the same rhythm and move by the same interval, thus causing
How to Use Reaktor with Opusmodus
For those of you who do not know about Opusmodus (OM), it is a very powerful and flexible algorithmic music
Lisp: Returning Multiple Values From A Function
One of the interesting features of Lisp is its support for returning multiple values from a function, without bundling the