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Modifying

Musical Algorithms

Transforming music is an important musical function.
In an abstract sense all instruments are designed to transform gestures or sounds.

This section focuses on the ways in which digital music can be
transformed and manipulated.

 

 

TUTORIALS:

>>  jMusic Tools and Utilities

          Like many software projects, jMusic has some core and some additional elements.

>>  Repeat
          
Repetition is one of the most fundamental of musical elaborations.

>>  Up - Down, Left - Right
          
This tutorial describes a class that generates a phrase then creates a (not so intelligent) structure from it through transposition to shift the notes up           and down, and copying and pasting to different locations to show moving left and right in time.

>>  Scatter Phrases: Stochastic phrase positions
          
This tutorial creates phrases across 16 channels and sets their start positions at random over 100 beats.

>>  Ordering Phrases Around: Random Phrase Positioning
          
In this tutorial a number of cheezy melodies are arranged in a random order.

>>  Following Phrases: Repeating phrases and algorithms
          
In this class you will see an example of how one phrase can be repeated to create a dense texture.

>>  Forms: Arranging phrases
          
This class shows how you can experiment with different arrangements of phrases.

>>  Implying a sense of Meter
          
This program passes a phrase and adds accents on the downbeats according to the hard-coded time signature.

>>  Music Modification Examples
          The Mod class includes a vast array of methods to transform a music phrase.
          This tutorial outlines some of the most established musical modification, or developments, of a music a phrase.






 

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