[comp.music] Have you seen my thesis topic?

aspringman@eagle.wesleyan.edu (09/21/90)

Hello all,

     I'm new to this newsgroup.  I am interested in computer(-aided)
composition.  I have looked a little into Markov Chains as an analysis and
simulation tool for melodies.  I am a math and computer science double major at
Wesleyan University and a composer.  I can handle graduate level literature.
PLEASE advise me how to get started.  Book references would be the best.
I have access to IBM's, Mac's, and a VAX for any software, but I have no MIDI
capabilities on any of those computers.  Please send me any ftp sites where I
can get stuff, but not just normal music programs.  I want the theory stuff.
I want the Algorithms and perhaps some open problems and ongoing research.
I can pretty much compile any language on the VAX.  If you are an AI person
I'll take Scheme and Lisp.  If you have C, Pascal, Fortran, Cobol, or strange
ones like Occam; I'll take what you've got.

     Basicly, If I get enough good stuff I might change my thesis topic.

                                              Thanks in advance,

                                                       Andrew Springman