Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[David Bellows <>]

Hey Rod,

> Are we gonna see a more user-friendly app
of your Platonic Music Engine anytime soon?

That is definitely the plan. Once I get the infrastructure finished, I
will start figuring out how to create an online interface for the
project. The whole thing is free and open source so I'm hoping people
will contribute algorithms for music, art, poetry, etc.

In the meantime, the last two bits involve printing chords out via
Lilypond. The music algorithms can generate chords and play them back,
but getting them to print is proving difficult. Lilypond, obviously,
can handle them, it's just keeping track of everything on my end that
is difficult.

If I were a programmer this would have all gone much faster! (But I'm
also pretty sure I wouldn't have been able to envision the project in
all its scope were I not a composer.)

Anyway, thanks for asking! And yeah, to help people read between the
lines, the entire project also couldn't have happened without Cage and
my having studied him for all these years.

Dave
www.platonicmusicengine.com

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 8:06 AM Rod Stasick <> wrote:
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> Hey Dave,
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> Are we gonna see a more user-friendly app
> of your Platonic Music Engine anytime soon?
>
> Rod
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