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I don’t have much to say right now anyway.\u00a0 I’m not sure I’ll have my first album ready by August anymore; my interests have once again shifted to something else.\u00a0 Over the past week, I’ve been working on my melody project<\/a> again, something I started quite a few months ago (August 2008), but it’s just been sitting there for a while.\u00a0 I made some minor improvements to the algorithm (to be more specific, I took the recursive inverse directional beta loops and strongly conjoined them with the dysfunctional relative note sequence data curves coupled with reticulating splines, and programmed in the consciousness of a monkey. (More seriously, I changed the algorithm so that the output melody would be guaranteed to not be any of the input melodies, which had been a threat in the previous version if you were mixing only a few melodies that didn’t sound very much alike.\u00a0 With the modified algorithm, the program forces the melodies you’re using to mix.\u00a0 Overall, I think it gives better results, but it depends on the melodies you input and how similar they already sound (and your own melodic tastes, of course).)), and I also made this spiffy javascript page<\/a> which aids in the formatting of the text files the program uses as input.<\/p>\nWhat I’d like to do this summer is release the melody project in it’s current form so that others can fool around with it.\u00a0 I’m hoping to turn it into a Java applet that will run on a web page.\u00a0 It shouldn’t be too hard; it’s already Java after all.\u00a0 I mainly need to program a good input-output system, since it can’t so easily load and save text files from a visitor’s computer, since it will be on a web page.\u00a0 I can load the text files from my server easily enough, then I suppose the output could just be text in a text box.\u00a0 That would be the easiest, and will probably be what I end up doing to start off with.\u00a0 But that is a pretty annoying burden for the site visitors; they’ll have to interpret the output text by themselves (it’s not really hard, it’s just extra labor).\u00a0 So I’ll have to program a text-to-MIDI converter so visitors can easily and quickly hear what the output melodies sound like.\u00a0 And then there are a thousand other improvements I could blather on and on about, but those are my first ambitions.<\/p>\n
So that’s what I’ve been working on…<\/p>\n