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Is #dodecaphonic #music actually used for anything but horror/terror music? I mean, it is the worse music one can listen to.
#composer

David Cope, a composer and algorithmic composition pioneer who created a program in the 1980s to write music in the style of Bach and others, died at age 83 (Miguel Salazar/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/david-cope-dead-ai…

David Cope, Godfather of A.I. Music, Is Dead at 83
His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity.

Numbers play a role in the music of the suite "Ritual & Mayhem". The composer lays out their meaning for us in this article.
#music and #numbers

"Ritual & Mayhem" by the numbers
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

On my way to Vienna for the Neos 9 sprint! I've been looking forward for meeting the Neos team again for so long!
The 12-hours train ride also means get used to old habits. Like waiting for a longer stop at some train station to run composer update via 5G …
#NeosCMS #train

Around the turn of this century, a composer named Camille Saint-Saens wrote
a satirical zoological-fantasy called "Le Carnaval des Animaux." Aside from
one movement of this piece, "The Swan", Saint-Saens didn't allow this work
to be published or even performed until a year had elapsed after his death.
(He died in 1921.)
Most of us know the "Swan" movement rather well, with its smooth,
flowing cello melody against a calm backgr…

Today's #TuneTuesday theme is #LondonCalling - songs that name-drop a town or city in the title or lyrics.
This has long been a favorite, a song from an alt-country legend about Townes Van Zandt, the composer of some of the finest US songs of the 20th century. It mentions a whole series of cities.…

Electrosonic is an album of “Library samples of electronic music for radio, TV and film industry.” In the GLOSPOT1104 sleeve notes, John Cavanagh gives a loving and entertaining portrait of Delia and the circumstances surrounding the album's creation. Brian Hodgson says: Don was an Australian mood music composer. [...] I felt uncomfortable working with Don. At our first meeting he was pleasant enough, but I just felt he was using Delia and I to do something he couldn't do himself. [.…