music21 / MIDI and Python

If you like to generate music with Python, the last time I checked, we have module for ChucK and also for Pi Sonic. They both require server to talk to Python, there might be slight latency and delay, but they are quite fun and easy to setup.

And... there is also this fully Python module that deals with music: (a bit hard to use I found)
http://ajaxsoundstudio.com/software/pyo/

I like the idea of being able to generate music on the fly via Python. Would be nice if realtime, and if I could connect it to ... Blender 3D for example.

Anyhow, I remember apart from SYNTH there is also MIDI, and maybe Music Generation does not have to be realtime, if we can code certain BEAT and TRIGGER to match the animation or sampling of other stuff that we can visualize.

PYTHON AND MIDI

By some kind of magic I actually stumbled into this 'music21' module for Python.
http://web.mit.edu/music21/doc/about/what.html

I look through this 'music21' quickly and found lots of interesting and pleasing surprises! MIDI is a kind of format that I think should be simpler to use and to visualize.

Well, probably there are many apps out there that can already process, display MIDI, etc in interesting way, but here we are using Python in 2017 to generate MIDI and perhaps study MIDI.

You need to install Muse Score app in order to display the musical notations:
https://musescore.org

Currently I am still reading documentation about this MIDI and Python. So I guess I will give that a look and will post more interesting stuff as I go along.

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