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.
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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)
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I finally have the tools to create realistic drum grooves! (tl;dr: figured-syncopation & mp3s below)
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My first album in 6 years has been released! It's called "XI" (i.e. "Eleven")...
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I recently finished the thin but dense book "Creating Rhythms". And being a programmer at heart, I naturally turned most of the math and c code into a handy perl module for any intrepid programmer to play with!
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