TECH: GeoMaestro

Hiya peeps,
My music-saavy pianoist sister sent me this link... I have yet to see if
I can run it on my box (this glorifried desk-top sized PDA of a Mac).

<A HREF="http://www.zogotounga.net/GM/paper1.html"> * Composing with
GeoMaestro</A>

http://www.zogotounga.net/GM/paper1.html

---
Hanuman Zhang,
musical mad scientist (no, I don't wanna take over the world, just the sound
spectrum...)

"What strange risk of hearing can bring sound to music - a hearing whose
obligation awakens a sensibility so new that it is forever a unique, new-born,
anti-death surprise, created now and now and now. .. a hearing whose moment
in time is always daybreak." - Lucia Dlugoszewski

"The wonderousness of the human mind is too great to be transferred into
music only by 7 or 12 elements of tone steps in one octave." - shakuhachi master
Masayuki Koga

"There's a rabbinical tradition that the music in heaven will be microtonal"
-annotative interpretation of Schottenstein Tehillim, 92:4, the verse being:
"Upon a ten-stringed * instrument and upon lyre, with singing accompanied by
harp." [* utilizing new tones]

NADA BRAHMA - Sanskrit, "sound [is the] Godhead"

"God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of himself." -Thomas
Merton

LILA - Sanskrit, "divine play/sport/whimsy" - "the universe is what happens
when God wants to play" - "joyous exercise of spontaneity involved in the art
of creation"

...improvisation is about change, about flux rather than stasis. ... you have
to be aware of the fact that improvisation is about a constant change. -
Steve Beresford

improvisation: "a process of liberation, a working around the assumptions
that define our civilization, and the results are open-ended." - John Berndt

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, czhang23@a... wrote:
>
> Hiya peeps,
> My music-saavy pianoist sister sent me this link... I have yet to see if
> I can run it on my box (this glorifried desk-top sized PDA of a Mac).

I've used KeyKit a bit, and in essence used GeoMaestro as well. There is a lot to work with, as long as your interest is in algorithmic composition. But you can play midi files, etc., so it needn't end up being aleatoric, either. KeyKit hasn't been supported/developed in a pretty long time, but I think it isn't well-known enough.

My guess is that it won't run on a mac that old, but only one way to find out...

Cheers,
Jon