I stumbled upon this chart of 17 blues-jazz (jazz-blues?) chord progressions by Dan Haerle. Naturally, being a programmer-musician, I made a program with which to practice improv skills. (tl;dr: blues-progressions & audio below)
I have a library of drummer tools, and Frank Zappa wrote The Black Page drum solo. So... (tl;dr: black-page & mp3 at the bottom)
What does a number sequence "sound like"?
I decided to write down a set of steps on how to become an algorithmic music composer with the language Perl.
At first this took the form of an outline for myself. Then I realized that it might be useful to others!
And here it is: MIDI-Perl HOWTO Wiki
It seems I am always fiddling with algorithmic musical composition. Most recently it is with the program, polygenic, which is a descendant of the program in the previous post on this subject.
