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List:       lilypond-devel
Subject:    Re: real-time score generation
From:       Graham Percival <gpermus () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-02-27 20:37:15
Message-ID: 45E4967B.7090309 () gmail ! com
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Jamie Bullock wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 23:29 -0800, Graham Percival wrote:
>>  In particular, I had an OSC server that translated OSC 
>> messages into lilypond code, compiled it into pngs, then displayed the 
>> results as HTML pages.  The idea is that I'd have one central computer 
>> that would generate music (with Computer-Assisted Composition) and send 
>> it to musicians to sight-read on stage.
> 
> Wow! That sounds like really useful work. I've been thinking about this
> idea for a while (real-time score generation), but never figured out how
> to approach it. 

I have the practical display side worked out, but I haven't started work 
on the actual generation of music.  (I'll start work on that in a few weeks)

>> Since Sep, I've been tackling the problem of having the computer judge 
>> the ability of musicians, so I haven't touched firelily (that 
>> OSC->lily->PNG+HTML program) at all.  I'm planning on rewriting it in 
>> python (initial version was in perl) and releasing it at some point, but 
>> my focus right now is the musician evaluation tool.
>>
> 
> I'd be interested in contributing (some code) to this. Do you have a URL
> for the most recent version?

There's no URL, because I haven't made any public release yet.  Let me 
give my perl stuff a quick check, then I'll email it to you.  My plan is 
still to rewrite it in python, though.

Cheers,
- Graham



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