These are simple drone-like pieces generated algorithmically using only a basic sine-wave instrument. The csd files are created by analyzing PGN (Portable Game Notation) files, which are standard format files used to store chess games. The program was written in C++.

Game # 1 - Standard tuning pentatonic in A major
Game # 2 - 5-TET
Game # 3 - Just Intonation pentatonic
Game # 4 - 11-TET pentatonic
FourGames - 3h8TET - This piece was generated from a multiple game PGN file which includes all four of the other games.

The source chess games used are classics from the 1800's.

FMbot-00 is an constrained-random algorithmic just intonation composition, using a retriggering synth I call FMbot. The FMbot synth contains some simple constrained-random orchestra code and takes only the basic three pfields, instrument, note start time, and duration, making it a very easy synth to use and compose with. The results will be quite a bit different each time the song is played. I hope you find it interesting and/or amusing.

BW

Three tempered tritave tunings take turns.

http://bwong.ca/template1.php?sub=11

I have posted two minor software tools on my website at http://www.bwong.ca

etrcalc.pd is a Pure Data patch that calculates the closest match to an interval within any equal temperament tuning.

ethan-00.zip is a Windows only executable file that displays tuning data in cents and frequency ratio for any equal temperament tuning.

Obviously these have nothing specifically to do with Csound, they are just my learning tutorials for a couple of new programming languages, but perhaps someone might find them useful utilities for composition or synth design, as I do.

All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

Edgar Allen Poe, The Bells, 1849

Low quality mp3
http://soundcloud.com/brian-wong/tintinnabulation-3

Higher quality .ogg version here on the podcast http://www.csounds.com/node/1381

Unicycloid and Unicycloid2 are two pieces created with variations on a one-dimensional cellular automata composition system using a cycloid synth based on the design presented in the article by Hans Mikelson "Parametric Equation Oscillators" in Csound Magazine #2 http://www.csounds.com/ezine/spring1999/

You can check out the songs at http://www.soundcloud.com/brian-wong

pinkcube is an algorithmic adaptation of the song bluecube by Kim Cascone, as presented in this article http://www.csounds.com/cascone/index.html

I really enjoyed bluecube and the article and decided to create an constrained random algorithmic song using the same instruments and based approximately on the original.

http://www.soundcloud.com/brian-wong

Slendronica#1 is my 3rd piece in Slendro using my fractal AC tool. Besides refinement and expansion of the algorithmic composition code, these pieces have served the purpose of trying to find FM timbres that work with 5-TET. If successful, it is highly likely that similar or related designs would be effective in most or all other equal temperament tunings.

I have made 2 songs using a fractal music generator I have created in blue using Jython code. The synthesizer used is in both is one I call "7pm", a seven-oscillator phase modulation synth. The fractal music concept is inspired by that used in Fractal Tune Smithy.

The first song, "Tintinnabulation#1", is a basic example of applying a fractal seed to a single synthesizer. The scale is 5-TET, also known as Slendro.

This is a project demonstrating a basic probabilistic drum machine type of application, using blue and Pmask. You can change the tempo, time signature and quantization value in the Pysetup object. Some of the interesting features include :

- Looping of values for various pfields need not coincide with the loop values of the note start times. This allows loops with polyrhythmic controls for the pfields.

After a long time away trying other platforms, I am back to Csound and blue and enjoying it more than ever. FMain Street was the 1st thing I did when coming back to blue. It is on the Podcast here at http://www.csounds.com/node/502