Thursday, September 24, 2009

Table of Contents

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Introduction Some Initial Thoughts on Algorithmic Composition Intuition Repetition at a steady rate Tempo-relative timing Timed Countin...

Some Initial Thoughts on Visualizing Music

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The variety of possible relationships between sound and image is a vast and intriguing subject. In terms of visualizing music, it can includ...
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Friday, September 18, 2009

Modulating the modulators

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A control function with a particular shape can serve a role similar to a traditional musical motive. Even when it is modified in duration, ...
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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Second steps in modulating the modulator

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Here are two programs that show further development of the programs described in first steps in modulating the modulators . There we saw how...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

First steps in modulating the modulator

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Classic waveforms can be used to shape music synthesis, and that idea can be extended to shape musical composition with simple, recognizabl...
Sunday, August 2, 2009

Discrete steps within a continuous function

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A series of discrete events can give the impression of a continuous progression. For example, the series of numbers 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, ... gives...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Triangle wave as a control function

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An object oscillating in simple harmonic motion, such as a pendulum swinging or a tuning fork vibrating, has a "restoring force" t...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Pulse wave, a binary control function

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A pulse wave , also known as a rectangle wave , is a function that alternates periodically between two values, such as 1 and 0. This is a cl...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Sine wave as control function

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Sine and cosine are trigonometric functions that come from graphing the y or x value, respectively, of a point as it traverses the circu...
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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Classic waveforms as control functions

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When using a computer to compose and play music, the distinction between music composition and sound synthesis becomes blurred. Since 1950 ...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

Control function as a recognizable shape

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At the end of the article that defined a control function , I remarked that "One can think of a distinctive control function shape as b...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Line-segment control function

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In the article on fading by linear interpolation , you can see a demonstration of how a particular characteristic of a sound or an image (su...
Monday, October 6, 2008

Probability distribution

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In a set of possible events, each element of the set can and does have a distinct probability of occurring. We've seen how to write a pr...
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