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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. Good Lord... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Only 15 posts in the first 15 minutes, and not a single one of them is a troll?

    WHAT'S HAPPENING TO SLASHDOT??? :)

  2. Re:DNA Music by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Software Patents are past the first round!

    Hopefully they'll make it all the way and stop the KDE and Gnome communities continuing to blatently steal other people's ideas.

  3. Penny Arcade by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:Penny Arcade by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No really, you gotta check it out!

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  5. Go Lombok! by lub · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Forget Java, go Lombok.

  6. Suggested topic name change by RoderickMcDougall · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Strange man takes two completely different things, correlates them and the world is no better for it".

  7. I see... by Xenoproctologist · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So that's what five minutes of my life which I'll never get back sounds like...

    Seriously, I could have gotten something more melodic by piping a core dump into my sound card -- some downtempo ambient noise or whatnot.

  8. attn chikushou by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  9. attn cv by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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