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Music Computational Engine

In my last article “What is computational Music?” I explained in plain words what is computational music and what will be expected from a software that generates computational music based on Indian Music Computational theory. This article is giving a simple introduction on how to generate computational tones for fun and learning power of computational music engines or software.

Step 1: Go to site called tones.wolfram.com/generate/

Step 2: Make sure to have Quick Time Plug-in installed on your browser.

Step 3: Make sure your computer can play sound i.e MIDI Data.

Step 4: Make sure you have latest version of standard browsers and Javascript enabled.

Step 5: tones.wolfram.com cannot work without Internet connection make sure it works, however it can work without broadband connection.

Step 6 : Now, Look at the compositional controls on the web page, to develop your tone you must have knowledge of following before you really begin developing your own composed tone:

1. Musical Scale

2. Music Pitch Levels

3. Time Based : Tempo

4. Time Based : Duration

5. Music Instruments

Step 7 : Once you have acquired knowledge of concepts mentioned in step 6 to certain degree you can start experimenting to generate computational tones.

Step 8: Assuming that you have some degree of knowledge of music genre, we can select “new composition button”

Step 9 : Select the Style or music genre.

Step 10 : You may select “Show Variations” of the music style you have selected. It shows images for five compositions derived by making increasing changes to the Seed and Rule used to generate them.

Step 11 : One by one select the Instruments, Scale, Tempo, etc.

Step 12 : If you are done, now play or download your tone.

Puneet Arora is associated with Tamilmp3songslyrics and Hindimp3songlyrics  web portal since the inception of these Web portal . He is a great tamil music lover and admirer of tamil poetry and cinema .

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What is computational music?

What is computational music?

I’m sure, those who love music will not normally love mathematics equally and a mathematician might

love music to only level of entertainment.

From the day I come to this world I have wondered “How the people write such beautiful and

meaningful lyrics and the most amazing what makes them compose refreshing tunes?”

To my understanding, music is series of some patterns to please human listening abilities; therefore one

can write some mathematical equations to really understand its dimensions. In fact, I’m talking about

computational music.

So now, if I talk about computational music: there must be theory of computation based on Indian,

Western, Eastern music. Let me talk here about the Indian Music computational theory or the so called

Computer generated Indian Music.

Any software which might generate Indian music must be capable of encoding generic rules of Indian

classical music and it must be able to generate appropriate alaaps, taans and swara-vistar based on it.

Other features it must include should be as follows to make it truly successful based on Indian Music

computational Theory.

If input is provided as Aroha (ascending order of notes) and Avaroha (descending order of notes) along

with Vadi (a dominant) and Samvadi (a sub-dominant) notes of the Raga to the software and it must

generates a Bandish (a complete set of musical notes having meaning and base in Indian Music) at the

click. It should also generate a text file giving the details of the composition so that can document the

textual description of the rendering for future reference and analysis. Such tools will be really learning

tool to learn music and understand these rules with the help of a simple text file generated based on

Computation.

Puneet Arora is associated with Tamilmp3songslyrics and Hindimp3songlyrics  web portal since the inception of these Web portal . He is a great tamil music lover and admirer of tamil poetry and cinema .

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