Language(s): English

Keyword(s):

Algorithm ,  Grammar ,  Interactivity ,  Analysis ,  Computer Music ,  Live Electronics

Abstract:

Stephen Travis Pope introduces and compares various software programs for computer music and live performance. He focuses his analysis on the possibilities to manipulate and represent the high-level abstractions of musical data structures.

List of software:

• Sound Kit (sampled signal editing tool)
• Kyma (music composition package)
• ARA (knowledge-based software to describe work)
• DoubleTalk (predicate-transition or PrT diagrams)
• MODE (compositional algorithms and tools)
• Alternate Reality Kit (visual programming)
• ThinkerToy (modeling decision support)
• Chinese Temple Design Toolkit (aid in the process of refinement of a design)

All references of the same author:

(English)

Pope, Stephen Travis (1995). A Taxonomy of Computer Music
Pope, Stephen Travis (1996). Object-oriented Music Representation