AlgoCompSynth / CLAMS

Command Line Algorithmic Music System
https://algocompsynth.github.io/CLAMS
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Document musical philosophy #37

Closed znmeb closed 11 months ago

znmeb commented 1 year ago

Preliminary high points:

  1. Xenakis meets Sethares:

    • all levels of a composition must allow appropriate stochastic elements
    • synthesis and and scales have consonance estimates and composition / performance tools can read and write them
  2. Sweet spot is small ensembles:

    • low clock rate and small RAM limit the amount of audio that can be computed at practical sampling rates by an RP2040
    • this leads to the need to trade off between a higher-quality of a single voice and multiple lower-quality voices.