Re: Lilypond for serial music?

[Andrea Valle]

(Still can't understand this list behaviour of replying to the author and not to the list...)

Hi Miguel,

I don't like lisp-like languages. I really prefer OO languages. More, I've always find difficult to understand lily internals (no figure, scheme stuff etc).

So, for my personal preference indeed,  I have used Python. There's also to say that Trevor B. has an incredible on going project integrating Python and Lilypond. 

I started pressing him to release it under sourceforge but  evidently he is busy...:-)

For the last project I used SuperCollider, an audio prog language which has a Smalltalk-like syntax: this allowed me to integrate notation with audio analysis and synthesis.

If you want to integrate very complex audio stuff, use a very sophisticated language and then output to lily, I'll suggest SC.

More, I wrote some classes in SC which allowed me to import/export with Praat. So, I have all the audio analysis I need.

You may check this:

http://www.nabble.com/python-%3Elilypond-tf2401329.html#a6698740

http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20070504.140614.ff7f1029.en.html

There are some people interested in stuff like this. We could share some infos on a wiki or something.

Best

-a-

On 29 Nov 2007, at 20:18, Miguel Lopes Santos Ramos wrote:

From: Andrea Valle <address@hidden>

I typically use lilypond for algorithmic composition.

I use Python to =20= script lily.

Sorry to meddle in the thread.

Why Python and not the built-in Scheme interpreter?

Personal preference or something you would advise other people to?

I would be interested to know. I've used Excel outputting to Cakewalk in the

distant past, then LISP with output hand copied to score, more recently

Mathematica with cut-and-paste to lilypond.

Mathematica is great, has lots of combinatorial functions and also does

audio, but I'm finding some problems keeping things working across versions and

it really is not free at all; it's becoming more an environment than a

programming language and it's too expensive to use only as a programming

language.

I'm considering either moving back to Common LISP with Lilypond output

or using the built-in Scheme interpreter; but although I have a 15+ year

programming background, I'm not finding it very easy to use Lilypond Scheme.

Greetings,

Miguel Ramos

Lisboa

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Andrea Valle

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