Maestro Cue the Music!

Now it’s time to get conducting.

We’ve learned all about L-systems, midi magic, tools like MISEP that generates musical patterns. Now we can take it all together and generate some algorithmically inspired music!

To do this, I’mg going to reach for the isobar kit I mentioned in the first post. Rather than spend time writing the tedious algorithms to perform the mappings, this fine python library offers a rich collection of algorithmic generators and mappings - for chromatic, velocity, and rhythmic elements.

Listen to my MISPELling

expremigen - a lesson in MISPEL

Expremigen is an expressive midi generation library written in python by shimpe. It’s an exceptional tool to create musical compositions which can be rendered into MIDI and played out to an audio device.

In this post, we’re going to cover how to setup your OSX-based computer to play a midi file and then dive into using the python library, expremigen and it’s MIDI Specification Language (MISPEL) to generate some midi compositions.

Teaching Python to Beginners.

Teaching Python to a total noob

How hard can it be!

Recently, I had the pleasure of becoming a tutor for someone needing to learn how to program for the very first time. Having been a programmer for over four decades (OAF), I was quickly reminded of how much accumulated knowledge we who are in the know take for granted. Although my knowledge of computer science, and programming languages in general is extensive, I used the occasion to revisit aspects of the python language that are less obvious to a novice.