Nodal comes to mind
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~cema/nodal/
Cheers
Andrew
On 25 September 2015 7:57:42 pm AEST, justonium <justinorthrop_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>Copied and pasted from my blog:
>
>Here's an image for reference:
>
>http://imgur.com/ZzIj1FV
>
>You are looking at a sketch of part of a song. Every arrow is a
>Tanscript bond, and every other object is a Tanscript node. The tiny
>circles are musical notes. The entire graph is both a Tanscript program
>and a song. When the interpreter interprets the program, the song is
>played. The interpreter can be thought of as being like a record
>player, and the Tanscript program a record.
>
>Each note's pitch is encoded in its color. A note is a subtype of class
>action, and has in its implementation a sleep call; the note wakes up
>again after a duration of time has passed. The durations of each note
>in this picture are not visualized, but they should be in an actual
>implementation. When a note is done playing, the interpreter comes to
>life again and walks to and executes/plays the next note.
>
>The large circles and the square are templates for groups of notes.
>(They are also currently subtypes of class note.) The notes that they
>contain can be hidden to make the code more readable, but all of them
>are shown in expanded form here. When the interpreter executes/plays
>one of these templates, it walks into its contents, then back out again
>and to the next note that the template has a bond to.
>
>Templates are re-usable, which is powerful for composing music. There
>is more power here than in the copy-paste functionality of traditional
>midi editors, because the template can contain context-sensitive
>conditional nodes! Which brings us to another part of the diagram. See
>that V-shaped symbol with "T" and "F" written on it? That's a
>conditional node. A conditional node is like a railroad track junction.
>The condition can depend upon the state variables in a program, or, in
>this case, a value that is constant, and can be toggled by the
>listener! Yes, the listener can navigate the structure of a song as it
>plays, and flip the railroad track junctions in order to determine
>which parts of a song, or rather, interactive soundscape, are played.
>Note that one branch of the junction loops back to a previous part of
>the song.
>
>One note can trigger another note to play in addition to the one that
>it is bonded to. You can see this type of triggering connection at the
>top of the square template, leading to another template. When this
>happens, the new note begins to run as a separate Tanscript program,
>simultaneously to the Tanscript program that was already playing (and
>continues to play as well).
>
>If you look to the right of the square template, you sill see another
>triggering connection to a green rectangle. This green rectangle is a
>function which says to play the template that it points to in a
>modified manner. This particular one shifts every note in the template
>up by a fixed number of half-steps.
>
>In addition to users selecting condition values in an interactive
>soundscape, composers can edit any part of a soundscape as it is
>playing. As long as the interpreter doesn't reach a dead end, the
>soundscape will continue to play as the composer writes.
>
>The assignment of sounds to instructions is also useful for arbitrary
>programs for the purpose of sonifying the program. This is also a very
>important feature for when I program and write music while I'm
>blindfolded.
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