David Cope used lisp for his 'Experiments in Musical Intelligence'. Lisp is very suited to this problem, and it's through his books that I first 'got' lisp (at

David Cope used lisp for his 'Experiments in Musical Intelligence'. Lisp is very suited to this problem, and it's through his books that I first 'got' lisp (at the time, I was trying to do something similar in Java). Anyone interested in algorithmic composition should absolutely check out his work. http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/algorithmic-music-david-cope-and-emi/ http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/algorithmic-music-david... http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/cmmc.html http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/cmmc.html