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This is what I've wondered about -- with this and with the other few "music programming languages" on HN in the past year. They almost always seem to be simply
by SamBam 5y ago
This is what I've wondered about -- with this and with the other few "music programming languages" on HN in the past year.
They almost always seem to be simply "music notation", not music programming. At the end of the day, it's not that different from sheet music, just written slightly differently.
If I wanted to actually program music based on this, could I? Could I write a loop that plays random notes on the pentatonic scale? Or that systematically plays through every scale, without writing out all the notes by hand?
- kennywinker 5y agoIt sounds like there’s a layer built on top of this to write clojure that interacts with alda, and you definitely could with that. There are also a bunch of other options. Orca (a visual sound programming language) and sonic pi would be where i would start for two very different approaches to the concept.