Re: [freenet-chat] A programming language for music?

[Mr.Bad <mr.bad@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "go" == g'o'tz ohnesorge <gohnesorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    go> There was, very long ago, a music composing system for the
    go> Classic Amiga. The name I forgot, but it was described as a
    go> programming language for creating music, and said to allow a
    go> full month of non-repetitive music out of less than a megaByte
    go> of floppy disk space.

    >> I guess I just can't figure out how to do this without taking
    >> advantage of the repetitiveness of the music for compression.

    go> It was a programming language for music, not just an audio or
    go> musical note stream recorder and player.

    go> You could program loops and modifications of existing
    go> snippets, replay some notes with another instrument or group
    go> of instruments, and so on.

    go> A tool to dig The Industry's grave.

Oh. So when you said "a full month of non-repetitive music," what did
you mean?

~Mr. Bad

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