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Cellular Automata and Music Using Java

Posted by simoniker on from the musical-geekout dept.

Justin Powell writes "Take computers, mathematics, and the Java Sound API, add in some Java code, and you've got a recipe for creating some uniquely fascinating music. IBM Staff Software Engineer Paul Reiners demonstrates how to implement some basic concepts of algorithmic music composition in the Java language. He presents code examples and resulting MIDI files generated by the Automatous Monk program, which uses the open source jMusic framework to compose music based on mathematical structures called cellular automata."

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  1. DNA Music by A3thling · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lets hope it sounds better than DNA music. That was tried a while ago and was horrible.

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  2. Fractal music by VAXGeek · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you like that, try this: Fractmus 2000 (win32)

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