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From the top of the original link: > “Velato offers an unusual challenge to programmer-musicians: to compose a musical piece that, in addition to expressing th
by velcrovan 3y ago
From the top of the original link:
> “Velato offers an unusual challenge to programmer-musicians: to compose a musical piece that, in addition to expressing their aims musically, fills the constraints necessary to compile to a working Velato program.”
It seems like Velato’s purpose is to provide an unusual and interesting creative constraint for people who can both code and write music.
- Rochus 3y ago> Velato’s purpose is to provide an unusual and interesting creative constraint for people who can both code and write music I do both on a professional level and have no idea what this sentence means; that's why I'm asking.
- MyNameIs_Hacker 3y agoHave you ever sat in front of your favorite DAW version XX and thought, oh wow so many things, what am I going to do? How about Sonic Pi? Or any modern audio toolset. So much possibility, where to start? Creative constraint is about opening up pathways by restricting options.
- hn_acker 3y agoIt means come up with a code goal and a music goal, and fulfill both with a Velato program. For example, can you write MIDI file which finds the nth Fibonnaci number and sounds good to your friend when played with a piano instrument (a real one or a sound sample)?
- Minor49er 3y agoPresumably you code and compose in separate contexts, unlike what the sentence describes
- jcpst 3y agoConstraints are not too crazy of a concept. It’s not much different than say, writing a traditional Schoenberg style 12-tone composition. You would create your tone rows and then write your composition. If you follow the rules, then it is also 12-tone serialism.