/algorithmic-music

Primary LanguagePython

is-software

Software for my senior thesis

Purpose of This Project

This project is part of my Senior Independent Study project at The College of Wooster, in fulfillment of the Computer Science and Mathematics majors.

Project Layout

  • basicMarkovChain contains prototype code for the Markov model
  • intervalMarkovChain contains code for using Markov models to generate a melody with separate chains used to choose rhythmic values and intervals between notes
  • geneticAlgorithms contains the code for the genetic algorithm code and LSTM code. Requires the multiprocess Python library.
  • MusicScore.py contains code prototyping output from some Python representation to ABC notation. It has been deprecated since the project started using music21

Before using any of the components, you should gather a corpus of MIDI (.mid) files to serve as the source material for both the Markov chains and genetic algorithms.