Percussion!

By the way, I've always thought that algorithmic composition (like Western
music generally) has focussed WAY too much on "melodic" music, and the next
person who wants to fiddle with algorithmic composition should aim for a
program that sounds like Babatunde Olatunji rather than Mozart.

Altho that might involve a bit of thinking, because it's my impression that
it's easier to teach a machine what intervals are "right", than to teach
how to syncopate "right".

(And, who knows, doing Mozart could be a good warm up to doing Olatunji.)



Cf. what Philip Glass said about patterns in Shankar's composition:
  http://freshair.npr.org/dayFA.cfm?display=day&todayDate=09%2F21%2F1999
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/fa/19990921.fa.ram
    http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/fa/19990921.fa.rmm


(Altho someone once sent me a program that turned rat genome data into
ragtime music; that was pretty zippy!)


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