"MRAC extends SCOM and runs now on the the new Intel platform. "
www.mracpublishing.com


"Symbolic Composer has been tested in the Softpedia labs using several industry-leading security solutions and found to be completely clean of adware/spyware components. We are impressed with the quality of your product and encourage you to keep these high standards in the future."
www.softpedia.com

FINDMYSOFT
"Symbolic Composer is a high quality software product."

www.findmysoft.com



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NASA Solar Wind Blows To SCOM
SCOM Ident--- 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
 
Mac OS 8-9, OSX, PPC and Intel Mac, 1024-4096 MB RAM
Windows 1024-4096 MB RAM

Authorization

SCOM runs first on Demo Mode, which cancels most functions. Full interface and documentation can be browsed.  Authorization restores full functionality.






"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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