Let's talk about music programming! There are a million aspects to this subject, but today, we'll touch on generating rhythmic patterns with mathematical and combinatorial techniques. These include the generation of partitions, necklaces, and Euclidean patterns.
Recently, I found that there were gaps in the musical creativity packages on pypi. There are packages for music analysis and utilities for doing MIDI things, but nothing I could find for actual creativity. I decided to rectify this and port my music and MIDI Perl code to Python.
For a long time, I have wondered how to easily know what chords have a diatonic function in two different keys (modes). This is known as a "common" or "pivot" chord. Naturally, being a software engineer, I wrote a program to answer this for me! (tl;dr: the mode-pivot program)
I finally have the tools to create realistic drum grooves! (tl;dr: figured-syncopation & mp3s below)
My first album in 6 years has been released! It's called "XI" (i.e. "Eleven")...