Hello good people. I posted here the other week and it occurs to me that I havenāt formally introduced myself. Apologies if Iāve broken convention!
My name is Mark, and Iām a technologist by trade.
My main musical interests lie in generative/algorithmic composition and microtonalities.
On the generative side, Iāve primary been exploring a class of algorithms designed to capture the attributes of systems that exhibit spontaneous order and self-organization. If youāre interested I have a short write up on my website:
https://www.pataphysical.info/emergent-music.html
as well as more detailed information on my music site (linked from there).
On the micro tonalities side, I maintain a package designed to explore them ā think of a Scala, but implemented in python:
https://pytuning.readthedocs.io/en/0.7.2/
(āMaintainā is actually a strong word; I tend to throw things out and then not really look at them for a few years!).
If youāre interested in what microtonal, generative electronic dance music sounds like:
https://www.pataphysical.info/overunity-dance-music-for-the-multiverse.html
but it is a little off-topic for this site, as I didnāt use VCV rack on it (that album was produced with some synths I programmed in CSound and the Yoshimi soft-synth).
Iāve been working with VCV since about the beginning of the year, and frankly I love it. I havenāt released anything yet, but I have a few tracks for my next album done (when itās done itāll be released with a Creative Commons license, as is all my music).
I use VCV on Linux ā Iāve been single-booting Linux since the days of the monolithic kernel!
I have a few ideas for modules. For example, I think a good first project would be to add microtonal support to one of the open source quantizers. NYSTHI has a Scala-based quantizer, but it isnāt open source, so it could in theory go away, locking folks out of their music.
Getting up to speed om module development may take me a little while though. Iāve been working for a couple of years as a developer, but not a C++ one!