Wikipedia:  Process_Music

 
 

Music Composition  |  "Musical composition is: an original piece of music; the structure of a musical piece; the process of creating a new piece of music"
 

Process Composition  |  "Process music or systems music is music that arises from a process , and more specifically, music that makes that process audible. The term predates and is often used synonymously ..."
 
 

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Music Webquist

 
 

Chad Sowers   -   A Web Based Introduction to Basic Music Theory and Music Composition

Have you ever wanted to write your own piece of music but weren’t exactly sure how to get started? Well now is your chance.  With the help of a couple of excellent web sites, you are going to learn the basics of music theory and apply them by writing your own short composition  | 
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Palatine

 
 

Tracking the Music Composition Process: Identifying a Model for Pedagogical Practice   -   David Collins
 

Music Database  |  Basic Compositional Technique and Pedagogy  |  AJems: Online Journal Sponsored by the Experimental Music Catalogue Journals & Periodicals  |  Electronic & Electroacoustic Music  | 

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Wikipedia.org

 
 

Algorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create music

"Algorithms (or, at the very least, formal sets of rules) have been used to compose music for centuries; the procedures used to plot voice-leading in Western counterpoint, for example, can often be reduced to algorithmic determinacy. The term is usually reserved, however, for the use of formal procedures to make music without human intervention, either through the introduction of chance procedures or the use of computers. There is a radical distinction (both in terms of philosophy and in the heard result) between composers who use indeterminate (e.g. stochastic) procedures to compose music and those who use routines which produce deterministic results given a fixed input into the algorithm." 
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Vermont MIDI Project Overview

 
 

Key Tenets About The Music Composition Process

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CARTESIflN MQSIC REPRESENTATION SYSTEM

 
 

Music Composition Process Using Such System & Music Processing .MSlD Executing System

"As now well known, with the use of computers, music composition has been revolutioned and numerous software tools and hardware devices have been created to facilitate composition working for musicians."
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Inflections

 
 

Music from DNA by John Dunn and K. W. Bridges

"The following tracks are by Kim Bridges.  They are available for listening on a personal computer using an MP3 player.  This music was composed algorithmically with DNA data from the NIH GenBank, and realized on E-mu synthesizers.  Kinetic Music Machine software by John Dunn.  DNA interpretation program by John Dunn in collaboration with K. W. Bridges."
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SourceForge

 
 

Constraint-Based Computer Aided Composition

"Composers like to explore new compositional approaches in order to develop a distinct personal musical language." 
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Bill Hammel

 
 

An essay on patterns in musical composition

An immense music resource tied to his home site with 800 pages
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MS Project Report Genetic Music  -  (PDF) 

 
 

Between chaotic and predictable, the GA algorithm produces melodies falling ...
Another algorithm would aim to evolve both melody and harmonic. progression

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Music Composition and Technology   -  Computers as Tool and Technique

 
 

"This paper is a brief survey of some of the issues raised...

by the increasing use of computer technology in music composition. New tools, new techniques, and new ways of thinking about music are discussed with a view to how the technology affects the end product, the composition process, and the composer. There are new challenges and opportunities as Western music transitions from the avant-garde to the new tonality. The analogy of the modernity -- postmodernity transition is made to the current state of Western music, and the perennial question "What is Beethoven?" is once again asked, though not answered. "

Gordon Zaft   -  University of Arizona
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Guitar Nine Records

 
 

Guest Column: The Art Of Pre-Composition,   Part 01  -  02

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Linux Journal

 
 

Loop-based Music Composition With Linux, Pt. 2

"It's a simple enough process, anyone can string some loops together ... this introduction to loop music composition with Linux sound tools "
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ArsTechnica

 
 

Who are you? New music composition site gives you your own theme song   -   By Joel Hruska

Peter Townshend has a software project called Method   -  May 08, 2007
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OpusPlus.org

 
 

Music as Physical, Structural and Present

Objectivity and Semantics in Music  |  Subjectivity and Music  |  Emergent Structural Composition  |  Composition Space  | 
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Complexity.org

 
 

Grammar-Based Music Composition   -   Jon McCormack 

"In this paper, we describe a system for computer-assisted music composition and therefore the majority of this introduction will focus on the application of computers for composition. This is not to discount the many other uses of computers in music, such as sound synthesis, acoustic and physical modelling, automated notation, score editing and typography."
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FreezeFrame - an essay on music composition on the Internet

 
 

Hello you all this is part of a longer essay, but basically I'm going to present this and some live software remixes of materiaal from various digital sound sources

NetTime.org
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Drama in Stories Written in Sounds

NY Times

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In Single File, Berio’s Menagerie on Parade

 

Tribute to Luciano Berio   -   NY Times
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.Science and music: an interview with Iannis Xenakis - interview

 

EOmag
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.The Mystery Of Music

 

"But what is it that makes music so universally important?"   -   EOmag
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A Look at Two Rival Ideas About How to Compose

 

The Manhattan Sinfonietta   -   NY Times
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.Music Matters - The Asia Pacific Music Forum

 

As The Pioneer Music Forum In The Region, Music Matters Was Set Up To Encourage Innovation, Collaboration And Transparency Within The Music Ecosystem In Asia   -   Mi2N
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Video: Antarctic Researchers Create Beautiful Music

 

Wired  -  By Eliot Van Buskirk
 
 

 

Southworth makes music outside the rules

 
 

MIT News Office  -  "Christine Southworth's latest composition for generator, robots, instruments and voices features some high-voltage star-power -- the 40-foot-tall Van de Graaff (VDG) generator at the Museum of Science in Boston."  | 
 

 

A Musical Ode To Facebook Applications

 

Wired  -  By Eliot Van Buskirk
 

 
 

Music Composition:  Websites

 
 
 
 

Sibelius Academy  -  Music Resources  |  Composing  |

 
 
 

Composition Today  |  Features composition competitions, jobs, interviews, articles, composer resources, new music concert listings, and composer showcases  |  This is a professional resource website for composers   Articles Interviews Sound Bank Reviews Concert Listings Competitions Jobs & Opps Workshops Composer Database Showcase News Archive Forums

 
 
 

Open Directory  |  Composition Software  |

 
 
 

Algorithmic Composition for Acoustic Intruments  |  Generating music, filtering harmonic transformations, and arranging self-similar song fragments by computer

 
 
 

ComposersOnline.org  |  An independent web magazine for composers

 
 
 

Yahoo Directory  |  Music Composition

 
 
 

ComposersCollaborative  |  Formed to promote new music through productions, seminars, and workshops

 
 
 

Composer Tools.com  |  Tools  |   20th Century Music Theory  |  Listening Guide  |  Dictionary  |

 
 
 

eHow.com  |  Check out these search results for "music composition"  |

 
 
 

Music Composition Resource  | Books & Articles  -   General reference, instruments & orchestration, composers & their art, notation, twentieth century music theory & history  |  Internet sites  -   Links to music publishers, search engines, music resources and more  |  Recordings -   Trends in twentieth century music: historical background, composers & recent works (including WWW links)  |  Music Composition FAQ  -   Getting started, motivation & dry spells, creative principles, helping factors, miscellaneous concerns  | Other sources

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