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January 14, 2008
Nodal 1.0 - Generative Software for Music Composition
...a generative software application for composing music. It uses a novel method for the notation and playing of MIDI based music. This method is based around the concept of a user-defined graph. The graph consists of nodes (musical events) and edges (connections between events). You interactively define the graph, which is then traversed by any number of players who play the musical events as they encounter them on the graph. The time taken to travel from one node to another is based on the length of the edges that connect the nodes.
And it's also a lovely idea. The space between the points on the grid defines the time between notes. It outputs midi so you just have to voice it using whatever you happen to have, but this is perfect. From my perspective this is a great fit for the monome/tenori-on crowd who are on a budget (but still have a mac lying around - I mean who doesn't these days?)
Grid based music systems are fascinating, and seem to be experiencing some sort of renaissance at the moment.
Nodal is a research project from Monash Universities Centre for Electronic Media Art.
Thanks dylan!
Thoughts after playing with it for a little while: It's a lot of fun, and pretty cool. It only takes a moment to setup with simple synth, and I'm thinking not a bad way to get some interesting MIDI with which to work with. I like that it's quite polished in terms of interface and and sometimes it's a little counter intuitive, I think that's because I'm learning it rather than because it's massively flawed. I want to run it into Abelton Live and see how that works for me next, I suspect that I'll be able to make it sound a lot better again. Highly recommended for (a free) download.
Posted by funnelbc at January 14, 2008 03:00 PM
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