music@oliven.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Piero Scaruffi) (06/14/91)
Hello World.
This is my first posting - please forgive any minor bungles.
I am a research student at Olivetti's Artificial Intelligence
Centre in Naples, Italy. My research topic is computer composition
of music, such as expert system composition software, or Petri nets;
I'm not interested in pure sequencing programs or MIDI equipment.
Naples isn't the easiest place to obtain material from, so I'm
asking ANYONE ANYWHERE to please send me any relevant thoughts or
material (preferably by e-mail to spencer@icopen.ico.olivetti.com):
- concerning papers, books, algorithms, program listings
- useful ftp addresses
- organisations who might assist me
- whatever!
I'll post a summary if I get a good response.
I am using a Roland sound module, a Roland MIDI keyboard,
a Music Quest PC-MIDI Card (MPU-401 compatible), and an
IBM-compatible (an Olivetti '486).
Many thanks in advance -
Tom the Kiwi
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\================> Save the Whales for dessert <========================/Paul_Thompson@mindlink.bc.ca (Paul Thompson) (06/17/91)
Buon giorno nel'bella Napoli! And now back to the mother tongue...lots of stuff
of your topic. I would think a primary resource would be the journal which I
believe is called the Computer Music Journal; issues I've seen had extensive
articles and documentation back to the beginning of Computer Time..
I don't know if ther's stuff for IBM machines but Mac, Amiga and Atari have
quite a history. MAX is a new interactive language for the (what else? Mac that
Carter Scholz in KEYBOARD raves about. On the Mac and Amiga thewre is HMSL,
aprogramming language for experiemental music; complex but~r fascinating. They
have a bulletin board for it 415-928-8246 and you may be able to catch their
ear through USENET which youand I are on. Send a call out for Phil Burk or
David Rosenboom. DR is one of the leading exponents of interactive music, a
brillaint musician with unlimited imagination. On the humble Atari there is
forthMoxie which is a faily un-comples language for writng interactive
programs. Try contacting Daniel Scheidt at Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC
Canada thru USENET.
Hope this helps. BTW:are you a KIwi in bell"Italia? I was one too, now living
on the other side of the Pacific.
Best wishes
Paul
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