Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!bellcore!rutgers!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!grian!!scott
From: scott@heim.uucp (Scotty)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Markovian Music
Summary: Feed it more that one tune
Message-ID: <498@heim.uucp>
Date: 7 Aug 89 13:05:40 GMT
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Reply-To: scott@heim.UUCP (Scott Watson)
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In article <1389@draken.nada.kth.se> jakob@nada.kth.se (Jakob Cederlund) writes:
>I've dunnit. Using a simple BASIC program I generated a new tune given
>an existing one. I only used monophonic tunes, and the result wasn't
>very interesting; it just sounded like a small variation of the
>original tune.
>
>I got some rather simple  correlations: the more indices in the matrix
>(=number of preceding notes), the closer the result was to the
>original tune. Also, the longer the tune, the more alike were the
>result.

What happens if you feed it the multiple works of a composor? Hopefully,
the end result would be something where small segments where more or less
played verbatim from the source material, but, would make (more or less) 
reasonable transitions between them?

In your BASIC attempt (no pun intended), I suppose you used the note and
duration as the key features your analysis? Is this correct? Could you post
this program to the newsgroup?

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