10 Putting it all together

Examples in the wild

Exhibit A

blue-monk (Not an algorithmic composition, but illustrative nonetheless.)

Exhibit B

drum-circle

Exhibit C

polygenic

Exhibit D

chordal

Exhibits E

progressive and algo-progression

Exhibits F

• Here is my write-up (with audio) of a handy, jazz improv practice tool.

• And here is its cousin: Rock-Tool

What to do with the results?

• Import into a digital audio workstation (DAW).

• Reassign better patches.

• Add better drums.

• Use the generated MIDI bits within a larger composition.

• Turn into an MP3 on the command-line:

timidity foo.mid -Ow -o - | ffmpeg -i - -acodec libmp3lame -ab 64k foo.mp3