[Jprogramming] Generating "music" in J (or otherwise)

[Roger Hui]

Marshall Lochbaum's presentation at the last J conference was about music.


On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 2:28 PM Devon McCormick <devonmcc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi -
> has anyone done work with generating music or musical phrases in J?  I'm
> helping someone develop a music training game that starts by generating
> sounds with a particular key, tempo, and phrase length.  The idea is to
> help students to train their ears by testing them on their ability to play
> back a randomly-generated musical phrase.
>
> I've told my collaborator that I think the generation part should be
> relatively straightforward but I am not schooled in music, so I'm not sure
> how to start.
> I'm guessing that the second part of comparing the user's response to the
> generated phrase will be more difficult but I'd like to get any kind of
> start I can.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Devon
>
> --
>
> Devon McCormick, CFA
>
> Quantitative Consultant
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
>