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articles / code-less demos

• wolfram tones - also see the faq, composition tips, and detailed description of the control parameters

repositories

Java

• GoL Sequencer
• cellular music - (GPL)
• CA-music - GoL-style
• soundHelix - doesn't mention CA

Processing

• a musical life

Python

• cell tone - "programming language for generative music composition using CA"
• Musical GoL - also plays with notespace & time "folding"
• sound of life
• atrk - doesn't use CA (I think), but has potentially re-usable ideas. From this ludum dare post.
• MMA - generates musical accompaniment given chord-structure, also has gui (linuxband)
• Pymprovisator - Dev Suspended. author now uses MMA

javascript

• game of music - web demo
• sound of life - web demo; "colors" celss with notes, then plays only cell state is active.
• proceduralMusic - wolfram-tones-style; web demo (web demo not working for me)

C++

• musica

basic

• CApieces

Other Potentially Useful Tools:

• SoundScrape - SoundCloud and Bandcamp downloader in Python - potentially useful as a first step in analyzing a particular music style
• PyChoReLib - identifies chords from notes & has other music-theory helper functions