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pike used in concert, tomorrow in Ghent Yvan Vander Sanden <yvan[at]youngmusic[dot]org> 08-09-2009
Hi.

I don't know if any pike users are living nearby Ghent, Belgium. But anyway,
for all interested pike programmers this announcement:

I've used pike to write some algorithmic music. I've made the beginnings of
what should become an interactive algorithmic music composition program
in/with pike. For now there's a very modest editor, a CMOD midi library (not
fully implemented but useable) and some config files for my particular
environment.

I will use it tomorrow on a concert with the Logos Foundation robot
orchestra. It will be used to calculate the music live and instruct the
robots on what to play. One piece is made by myself, and another one is an
arrangement from a composition by Tom Johnson, which takes faculties as a
basis and thus being ideal for programming instead of traditional
sequensing.

Of course this is not the first software of this kind, and most of the
concert will be controlled by my colleagues' power-basic software which is
much more mature. But i presume it will be the first time it's done with
pike (Scripting languages in general are not often used because timing is
very critical).

Should this interest you (I hope this is not regarded as spam), there's more
information on the concert and the orchestra here:

http://logosfoundation.org/mnm/index.php

I will try to post some code, text and music somewhere by the end of the
week. I also intent do release the code as soon as I feel it's stable
enough. For now there's just too much changes because i only use pike for a
few weeks and am uncertain about the most logical way to implement some
things.

Regards,

yvan



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