 --- VENICE, ITALY, 2008 FEB 14 --- Tonality
Systems/MRAC Publishing today lauch Symbolic Composer 5.5 Virtual for
the Mac Intel - no problem - fully tested and certified to run on a
virtual machine - seamless integration with OS X and pure pleasure to
have the SCOM on Intel Mac running in blazing speed.
New functions implement 17th century rules for
3..7 note chord
progressions, minimum energy modulatory sequences, chord enrichments,
predictive chord-sequence mixing, iterative melodic progressions,
harmonisation, and ornamentation for
2-voice simulated improvisations.
New score library additions include dopamine DNA music template,
Kraftwerk's Autobahn and general simplepop based on Madonna analysis
and synthesis templates, rhythmic element libraries, Ian Clay
Teratunings, and spiral form graffities.
Symbolic Composer 5.5 for the Mac is the
largest
and most popular high-level music language available for computers.
Symbolic
Composer 5.5 totals over 1000 music algorithms suitable for
modern, dance, classic, electronic, ambient, contemporary and
experimental styles. Symbolic Composer 5.5 also includes Common Lisp
interpreter that lets the composer extend and customize compositional
functionalities.
Symbolic Composer 5.5 covers 300 microtonal world-music and
theoretical scales, and all chords and scales used in the
last 500 years of music history - great news for the music educator
Besides providing the composer a
toolbox of traditional composition tools Symbolic Composer also enables
the composer to explore advanced fractal and chaos mathematics to
determine compositional elements.
Symbolic Composer is a massive collection of
computer music and research algorithms packed in an efficient music
composition language and interactive development environment.
Symbolic
Composer's rich music molecular language enables the composer to
extend
musical capabilities and helps to realize the maximum power of existing
studio investments spent on synthesizers and sequencers.
Features
• Context-Free Scoring Language allows composing music of any style and
complexity.
• Historical & Contemporary Music Functions supply the
classic
compositional power-tools.
• Mathematical Generators & Processors provide fractals,
chaos and
number-theory utilities.
• Symbolic Generators & Processors allow recursion,
l-systems,
fibonacci etc. sequences.
• DNA/RNA Processors enable to turn genetic data into music
• Programmable Neurons supply added intelligence to instrumentation.
• Programmable Phrase Library allows sequential drum and
chording
pattern generation.
• Free Score Library provides templates to start with.
• Build-in Hyper-Documentation helps using the system.
• Standard MIDI file output enables to use any sequencer, hard
disk
editor, sound module, or software synthesizer for playback & final
assembly.
• Integrated Lisp Language allows to write own functions,
documents and
menus.
• Modular Plug-in Expansion helps to distribute own
developments to
other users.
• 300 Chords, Scales & Microtonals supply a complete
coverage of
tonalities used in our planet - and you are naturally free to discover
your own.
• Over 1000 Algorithms included, anyone can be connected to
anyone in
the processing net for maximum creative freedom.
System Requirements
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Mac OS 8-9, OSX,
Intel VMware certified 1024-4096 MB RAM
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| Windows 1024-4096 MB
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Authorization
Symbolic Composer uses a personal keycode that unlocks the software for
full operation. The user can make backup copies of the authorized
software. In Demo Mode most functions are cancelled. Full user support
is available for no extra costs.
Composer
Comments:
"I love SCOM
because it
is so pure. SCOM lets me explore fractals, chaos, DNA, neurons and
mathematics, and program my own algorithms. It's really the most
wonderful tool I never seen for music composition."
"SCOM steps beyond notation and enables to realize compositions with
complete control on instrumentation and score structures like no other
software can do."
"I generate unique beats and patterns with SCOM, and drag them on my
sequencer for further tweaking. Thanks to SCOM I’ve now got full music
pro
grade without studying the theory for 10 years.”
“We use SCOM to teach music theory. SCOM covers both historical and
contemporary composition approaches. It also lets to learn all
chords, scales and micro-tonal tunings. It is both in tune with the
history and opens up the future.”
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SCOM in Media:
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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 composition, and an exciting one. It’s like composing music
from
one’s DNA structure.”, Composer Richard Devine.
"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 Peter Stone on his 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 some people that have contributed in indirect but
important way to the creation of this book:
Peter Stone and all the developers of the wonderful
algorithmic composition software Symbolic Composer, that I have
used for the composition of the exercises.
Douglas R. Hofstadter for the beauty and the
fecundity of his ideas on the perception, making analogies and on
the use of the crowded parallel scansion in the field of the artificial
intelligence.
Wayne Shorter for the originality and the passion
of his music, whose sound has sweetened many of my days.",
Claudio Martini, Author Of I Pattern
Automutanti.
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