@duncanmalashock It sounds like we have similar ideas on what we want to create in terms of applications. However, you are many, many years ahead of me in terms of musical understanding. One of the thing that I struggle with the most is that I like to dive head first into the concepts and then have to spend months/years putting those concepts into practice into my playing. I’m far ahead of my skills in terms of theory. This is an extension of why I became a programmer. That being said, I have a lot to learn in terms of how and what tools would actually be useful for a performer or composer.
I would be curious to hear what tools you think would be most beneficial to those two groups to have at their disposal. I have had to start playing with concepts that I find most interesting, but I don’t think that those are the things that most people would be using in their works. I would like to be able to work on a tool that benefits a wider audience.
I would love to hear what problems you think would be best solved by the computer and where you think the pieces of ambiguity (exploding problem space) should be guided by the artist.
One day when the inspiration strikes again, I would like to explore the use of the harmony search algorithm and something like novelty search to provide rough musical filler which could be a good base of work and inspiration to get started. Hopefully it could be a good tool for fighting the blank page syndrome or for quickly expanding a melodic idea into at least a moderate harmonic base.
Keep of the great work and I am just as excited to see where you take your work as well!