Automatous Monk: Cellular Automata Music / News: Recent posts

Seurat 1.0.1 is available for download:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=100656&package_id=297270&release_id=640444

Seurat is a visual processing application that uses cyclic space and Hodgepodge cellular automata to operate on images.

Seurat 1.0.0 has been released. Seurat is an image-processing application/applet that lets the user operate on images using 2D cellular automata such as cyclic space and Hodgepodge.

You can download Seurat 1.0.0 from here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=100656&package_id=297270&release_id=639573

Automatous Monk has been selected to be the Composer-In-Residence for the 23rd annual Bug Race. The Bug Race is to be held in Duluth, Minnesota (birthplace of Automatous Monk) this Fall.

Automatous Monk hopes to compose at least three new works for the Race, including a new Fanfare for the Opening Ceremony.

Here's some new cellular automata music I made for fun over my Christmas vacation:

http://www.automatous-monk.com/switchedon.html

The original MIDI tracks were created by Automatous Monk. I then imported these tracks into and mixed them in GarageBand. I didn't tinker with any of the notes, but did add drum loops to a couple of the tracks and 'fairy dust' such as reverb.

Version 1.1.0 of Automatous Monk has just been released. The focus of this release is the new version of Automatous Monk Radio (AM Radio). AM Radio now uses JSyn for its real-time audio synthesis. Using JSyn has made the timing of the Radio's music generation much more accurate.

A new version of AM (Automatous Monk) Radio has started broadcasting today:

http://www.automatous-monk.com/AMRadio2.html

AM Radio now uses JSyn for its real-time sound synthesis.

Automatous Monk Radio, the thinking man's (and woman's) favorite AM station, beaming your favorite cellular automata tunes worldwide and 24/7 in real-time, lava lamp mode.

Title: Cellular automata and music

Take computers, mathematics, and the Java Sound API, add in some Java code, and you've got a recipe for creating some uniquely fascinating music. IBM Staff Software Engineer Paul Reiners demonstrates how to implement some basic concepts of algorithmic music composition in the Java language. He presents code examples and resulting MIDI files generated by the Automatous Monk program, which uses the open source jMusic framework to compose music based on mathematical structures called cellular automata.... read more

Automatous Monk has announced that he will be taking a 6-month to 1-year sabbatical in Duluth, Minnesota, his birthplace. Said Monk, well-known stride pianist and cellular automata composer, "I thought it would be good to just take a break, do a little fishing, maybe study chess a bit, and just walk the hills of old Duluth. I also have a couple of ideas related to Goldbach's Conjecture and twin primes that I'd like to play around with."... read more

Version 1.0.0 of Automatous Monk has just been released. The source code can be downloaded from here at SourceForge.net. Compiled Java WebStart versions are available from the Monk web-site:

http://www.automatous-monk.com/

_The Well-Tempered Cellular Automaton_ was generated using Version 1.0.0:

http://www.automatous-monk.com/WTCA.html

Automatous Monk has just finished composing his first punk rock/hard bop work, _The Well-Tempered Cellular Automaton_, consisting of preludes and fugues (generated from elementary cellular automata) in all 24 major and minor keys:

http://www.automatous-monk.com/WTCA.html

All source MIDI files are available for remix (under a Creative Commons license) and mixed MP3 versions are in the process of being uploaded.... read more

Version 0.9.3 of Automatous Monk has been released today. The Monk would like to welcome the talented Mad String Quartet to the Automatous Monk Revue. Halls are now being booked in New England for the U.S. tricentennial in 2076. Revue tickets go on sale soon! In the meantime, just download 0.9.3.

Automatous Monk can now be run as a Java Web Start application. See the "Automatous Monk Installation" section:

http://www.automatous-monk.com/

Of course, the source code will always remain available for download here at Sourceforge.net, but this makes things easier for non-programmers.

A new application, GarageBand Loop Generator, has been added to the Automatous Monk suite of applications. GarageBand Loop Generator will generate electric bass-line MIDI files. The user can select the tempo, key, and number of beats. The user can then convert this MIDI file to an AIFF file that can be given Apple Loop tags with Apple's Soundtrack Loop Utility.

I still need to do a lot of work on this (boy, do I need to do a lot of work on this), but here is an early beta (alpha?) version of the Monk that generates CA music in real time:

http://www.automatous-monk.com/AMRadio.html

The source files for this applet are available in the CVS project repository.