Pattern Matching with Optima Lisp Library
In the previous two posts, we looked at external tools and libraries that can be used along with Opusmodus for algorithmic composition. In this…
Constraint Programming in Picat
In my last post I briefly described how we can use the Screamer Lisp library for constraint programming in music. Another language I have been…
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 specification. I felt it…
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 over it. The other…
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 change the tempo, alter…
Motifs and Transformations
One of the creative approaches to synthesizing music is to start with a short melodic motif and then apply various transformations on it. The…
Rhythmically Odd Rhythms
In the excellent book The Geometry of Musical Rhythm – What Makes a ‘Good’ Rhythm Good? by Godfried T.Toussaint, there is an interesting discussion…
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) { return 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, integer, float, boolean, and…
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 Lisp Recipes: A Problem-Solution…