Thursday 10:15
in Zeiss Plenary (Spectrum)
This talk provides a general introduction into creating music algorithmically using Python. Little prior knowledge about music is assumed. It is helpful to know how sheet music looks and what the MIDI format is beforehand.
We will start by looking briefly into the basic building blocks of music (harmony, melody and rhythm) and what our goal is (creating sheet music and a playable MIDI file).
Then we will discuss the history of algorithmic composition in music and from that we will develop ideas how we can create music from algorithms and randomness.
For creating sheet music we will look into the packages Abjad und music21.
In the end will we will create a playable MIDI file for our music using MIDIUtil.
