AthenaCL is a modular, object orientated, interactive command-line environment for music analysis and algorithmic composition. Scores are created in Csound as well as standard MIDI files. The software is open-source, cross-platform, and written in Python and XML.
Musical parts are deployed as textures, layered surface-defining objects containing linked parameter objects to control pitch, tempo, rhythm, amplitude, panning, and Csound synthesis and control parameters. The system includes an integrated library of Csound instruments. Parameter objects provide generators using stochastic, genetic, and various other algorithms. Textures can be combined, edited, cloned, and tuned with algorithmic temperament objects.
The analytic and algorithmic systems use path objects to organize and sh ... more
What's new in this version
2 new ParameterObjects: TimeFill and TimeSegment
3 new Generator ParameterObjects: funnelBinary, caValue, caList
3 new Rhythm ParameterObjects: iterateRhythmGroup, iterateRhythmWindow,
iterateRhythmHold
2 new filter ParameterObjects: filterFunnelBinary, filterQuantize
4 new AthenaUitlity commands: AUmg, AUma, AUca, TPeg
improvements to markov tools, pulse accent implementations, PO gaRhythm, TM IntervalExpansion, and commands TIdoc and TMv
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