I typically use lilypond for algorithmic composition. I use Python to
script lily.
Serial practices are just very simple cases.
There are other on the list doing so in very complex ways (e.g.
Trevor Bača).
Best
-a-
On 27 Nov 2007, at 22:44, Eyolf Østrem wrote:
The thread about strange meters made me wonder: have any of you
lilypudlians used LP to write serial music? It would seem to be an
ideal
combination: make a variable and expose it to different output
parameters.
I assume that with some scheme code, a sequence of pitches could be
translated into other series like rhythmic values, dynamics, etc.,
either
through hard-coded permutations or generated from the series by way
of some
kind of algorithm.
If anyone has experiences to share, I'd be interested in hearing
about it.
I can often say: "It's not for me, it's for my son" when I ask this
kind of
question at gaming sites etc. -- this time around it's for a
colleague who
writes serial-tonal music. I feel so sorry for him when he sits
there, the
night before the premiere, like a latter-day Mozart, and writes out
all his
permutations, when it could have been done by a simple "lilypond
weirdly.ly"
Eyolf
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