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cpressey / NaOpGenMo

National Opera Generation Month: spend (what's left of) the month of November writing code that generates a 2.5+ hour long opera.
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Open nothings opened 9 years ago

nothings commented 9 years ago

I've never tried generative music in my life, but I have an interesting idea for libretto generation, so I'll have to figure something out on the music front.

nothings commented 9 years ago

I livestreamed my first coding session on this: spent about 12 hours working on the procedural generation of the lyrics. For spoilers (and future streams) go to: http://www.twitch.tv/nothings2

cpressey commented 9 years ago

Ooh, nice!

nothings commented 9 years ago

I expecting to be completing this just as the buzzer sounds.

By which I meant the PST buzzer, not the GMT buzzer.

nothings commented 9 years ago

Completed. http://nothings.org/opera

I finished writing the program and searching for the best random seed before 12:00 AM. I still had to let lilypond generate the scores which took another 15 minutes or so, and then write up the web page linked above, but I consider this properly completed with no "Late" aspect, unless you really want to hold the PST vs GMT thing against me.

cpressey commented 9 years ago

Oh. My. Word. Very good stuff.

And if NaNoGenMo can be flexible with the concept of midnight, so can we...