 --- VENICE, ITALY, 2009, JUNE 8 --- Mrac
Labs
today launch Symbolic Composer 6.0.5 Mac and Symbolic Composer 6.0.1
Windows.
Symbolic Composer 6 is one of the largest high-level music language
available, and it is context-free, which means it suits in any styles.
SCOM has complete coverage of the world-music tunings, and its
libraries cover past 500 years of compositional traditions.
It's cool. And it's pure.
It is based on a written language based on standards, and it also
includes a complete collection of mathematical libraries, together with
integrated LISP programming environment to make hacks.
Set Your Controls To The Sun
Recent additions include musical Space-Weather Monitoring, H1N1
sequence handling and eval-definition & process-evaluation.
"Now SCOM includes NASA Satellites in the composer's toolbox. The
interface functions enable to read realtime data from NOAA,
Space Weather Prediction Center. Values are returned as vectors,
that
can easily be converted to melodic lines, and other compositional
parameters", explains composer Janusz Podrazik.
ACE Satellite Solar Wind
Electron Proton Alpha Monitor interface reads
solar wind proton density and speed. ACE
Satellite Magnetometer
interface reads x, y and z component strengths of earth's magnetic
field.
What does it mean for a composer not familiar in Astronomy?
"Solar Wind and Earth's Magnetic Field protect our planet from Cosmic
Radiation. Sun modulates everything on Earth, no matter if it is a
Revolution, or a War triggered by Sunspot Activity, or
increase/decrease of activity causing Ice-Age, or Climate Warming or
Evolution Jumps, not to mention Potential Catastrophic Plasma-Eruptions
as warned by NASA, historically documented in the cave-art in ten
thousands of years ago", developer Peter Stone comments.
"Set your controls to the sun. If you look for novelty ideas for music,
specially if the target is in 2012-boom/doom new-age scenarios."
For the composer the Sun is not just Ibiza beach and clubs, but a
source
of higher-level information, that can now take a place in films,
electro-tracks, experimental or in contemporary styles.
Other realtime
sources of interest are 3-5 minute captures of
Moscow Neutron Monitor, Sweden Kiruna Magnetosphere, global
economy stocks, or H1N1 genetic sequences.
SCOM The Music Language
• Music Language,
that allows composing music of any style and
complexity.
• Historical & Contemporary Music functions supply the
classic
compositional tools.
• Complete Chord, Scale and Microtonal libraries, and you are
free to discover
your own ones, too.
• Mathematical Generators & Processors provide advanced
fractals,
chaos and
number-theory functions.
• Symbolic Generators & Processors allow recursion,
l-systems,
fibonacci, and other special solutions.
• Programmable Neurons supply added intelligence to
instrumentation.
• Programmable Phrase Library allows sequential drum and
chording
pattern generation.
• Standard MIDI file output. This makes SCOM a perfect
partner no matter of the software and hardware you are
working with.
• Build-in HyperHelp & Search helps using the system.
• Over 1000 Algorithms included, each freely combinable to
each other for exponential creative freedom.
System Requirements
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Mac OS 8-9, OSX, PPC
and Intel Mac, 1024-4096 MB RAM
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| Windows 1024-4096 MB
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Authorization
SCOM runs first on Demo Mode, which cancels most functions. Full
interface and documentation can be browsed. Authorization
restores full functionality.
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"Exciting"
“Symbolic Composer was one of the first systems that I
encountered that explored the art of algorithmic composing
interactively. The system functions are selected from hierarchical
menus
and pasted on the editor, so it’s a completely different approach to
musical compositione. It’s like composing music
from
one’s DNA structure.”, Composer Richard Devine.
"Cool"
"I made a switch on
SCOM on studio production and sound design, since it is the only
program that handles fractals and math music that I need on my new
productions, with sound quality", says composer
Jimmy Edgar, a musician on Warp Records. http://www.myspace.com/colorstrip http://www.jimmyedgar.com
"Ingenious"
"Nowadays,
symmetries are widely used in
musical composition, for instance in the various transformation tools
of
sequencers, and explicitly in the author‚s prestor (see chapter 49) and
in Opcode‚s MAX or in music software with fractal composition tools as
realized by Mesias Maiguashca [220] or by the ingenious
Symbolic Composer software", Mazzola
G., Author of Topos Of Music
(If the direct link has changed due publisher, search the title at Springeronline
"Wonderful"
"I wish to thanks people that have contributed in important way to the
creation of this book:
All the developers of the wonderful
algorithmic composition software Symbolic Composer, that I have
used for the composition of the exercises - and Douglas R. Hofstadter
for the beauty of his ideas on the perception, and parallels to
artificial
intelligence",
Claudio Martini, Author Of I Pattern
Automutanti.
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