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From: jefu@sphinx.cs.nmt.edu (Jeffrey Putnam)
Subject: Genetic Music via Grammars (redux)
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A while back I announced my new web page that generates music via
grammars (sort of l-systems-like).  

For those who've tried before and found it lacking, I'm sorry.  I was
trying to set things up to manage low impact on our local compute
system and it just didnt work.  Combinations of a busy semester and
general craziness (thats me, "General Craziness" - which has a colonel of
truth) combined to make it impossible for me to fix it up until just
recently.  However I've now tested it and hope (cross fingers and toes)
that it will work better.

If you've tried my genetic programming of music thing you'll have noticed
that it doesnt do very well.  This system seems to generate at least
_interesting_ things quite quickly.  Interesting both melodically and
rhythmicly.  Its fun to play with and I'm thinking about making an
X windows version available through the web as well so that a user
can play with it more interactively.  

URL=http://www.nmt.edu/~jefu/sather-notes/notes.html 

Have fun...

For those who crave technical details I've written up a paper on the
system and may make that available on the web as well.



-- 
jefu@nmt.edu          - Jeff Putnam, CS Dept, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM 
http://nmt.edu/~jefu/ - "You never learn anything, you just get used to it."
