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Dear Ralf, dear Torsten,<br>
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thank you for your helpful Emails! So Arno is too old, I see. That's
a pitty.<br>
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A few weeks ago I studied Strasheela and after installing Mozart and
studying Oz a bit I decided to go back to Lisp - it's my favorite
language, I am used to it. That's why I am so enthusiastic about
Grace and all these helpful tools for converting data to music and
why I had a lot of hope in Arno.<br>
I programmed already basics with CSP in Lisp, so now it looks like I
have to go on that way. Your disseration about csp Torsten and your
source-code as well will be very helpful on that way (the article
you recomended I know already, but thank's).<br>
<br>
Best wishes to you both,<br>
and again thank's for the imediate answers, <br>
Alan<br>
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Am 28.12.2011 16:29, schrieb Torsten Anders:
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<pre wrap="">Dear Alan,
Thank you for your interest in my old CM extension Arno. As you already noticed, this software is now more than 10 years old -- I wrote it as part of my master thesis for CM 1.4. This program was the first constraint-based system for music composition I designed, and the lessons I learnt there informed my later projects in this area, in particular the design of Strasheela (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://strasheela.sourceforge.net">http://strasheela.sourceforge.net</a>). More specifically, the order in which decisions are made during the search process in Arno is inefficient for most cases, except canons. Many Strasheela-related publications are available at my website (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/tanders/writing.htm">http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/tanders/writing.htm</a>).
If you are interested in using constraint programming for music, there exist a number of systems besides my Strasheela. I attached a recent survey paper of this field for your convenience. A very interesting system not yet included in this survey is PWMC by Orjan Sandred, there is a CMJ paper discussing it [1].
Nevertheless, if you really want to use Arno then its source is still available at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/tanders/software.htm">http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/tanders/software.htm</a>, together with a related ICMC article and my mentioned thesis (in German).
Please do not hesitate to contact me in case of further questions.
Best wishes,
Torsten
[1] Sandred, Örjan. 2010. “PWMC, a Constraint-Solving System for Generating Music Scores.” Computer Music Journal 34 (2) (June 1): 8-24.
PS: In case you want to install Strasheela you may run into some compilation difficulties on a 64-bit machine (I just did not have any time to update this installation description, due to my new lectureship -- just let me know if you have any problems).
--
Dr Torsten Anders
Course Leader, Music Technology
University of Bedfordshire
Park Square, Room A315
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.torsten-anders.de">http://www.torsten-anders.de</a>
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On 28 Dec 2011, at 13:42, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rm@tuxteam.de">rm@tuxteam.de</a> wrote:
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This program most likely requires/runs with CM2 - Grace is CommonMusic3,
IIRC. To get your copy of CommonMusic2 you need to check out the cm2
branch from the subversion repository. What OS are you using? On
Linux/OSX it's as simple as (in a terminal):
$ svn co <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://commonmusic.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/commonmusic/branches/cm2">https://commonmusic.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/commonmusic/branches/cm2</a>
(all in one line). That will fetch the code from the repository and put
it into a directoy/folder 'cm2'.
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Gosh, I just flipped through the Disertation on Alan - that mentions
Stella - so even CM2 will be to "new". I think I have Stella on some
archive disk but you'd need some old vsion of Allegro Lisp or
Macintosh Common Lisp (the later is available as Open Source now, but
you need some old Mac hardware or an emulator. Doable but tricky ... ,-)
HTH Ralf Mattes
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Dr. des. Alan Fabian
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Institut für Musik und Musikwissenschaft
Stiftung Universität Hildesheim
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