5 music things

5 in 5

I like to cover 5 things in 5 minutes for lightning talks. Or one thing. At the local
Python user group, sometimes questions or other circumstances turn these 5
in 5 more into a 5 in 10-15...

5 Music Things

Eventually, after a year or two, I'll revisit a subject. I recently noticed that I had
not talked about music related things in almost two and a half years, so I did
5 quick Jupyter notebooks and presented that. Interestingly enough, none of
these 5 things were covered back then. The github repo includes edited versions
of the notebooks, based on the interactions at the meeting during my presentation.

Requirements: All require the following

pip install jupyter

Alphabetically...

1 - Audio

Notebook

2 - libROSA

Here we will need to pip install matplotlib and numpy, and of course librosa.

Notebook

3 - music21

pip install music21

You'll need some external programs: Lilypond and Musescore

You also need launch scripts for each of them. On a mac, use the provided
launch scripts in the mac/ folder of this repo. Make sure you chmod a+x them.
Change the path in the notebook to reflect your own user path.

Notebook

4 - python-sonic

pip install python-sonic

You'll need one external program: Sonic Pi and to start it before running through
the notebook.

Notebook

5 - pyKnon

pip install pyknon

You'll need one external program: timidity

easily installed:

• in Linux with apt-get install timidity
• on a Mac with brew install timidity

This was mostly an excuse to demo that external command line tools like timidity
or sox can be used here.

Notebook

Have fun!

@f_dion - francois(dot)dion(at)gmail(dot)com

P.S.: Github repo at: https://github.com/fdion/5_music_things but for some strange reason, github will not render the first (0-StartHere) notebook. This blog post is basically that notebook, putting things in context.

Something for your mind: Polymath Podcast Episode 001

Two topics will be covered:

Chipmusic, limitations and creativity

Numfocus (Open code = better science)

The numfocus interview was recorded at PyData Carolinas 2016. There will be a future episode covering the keynotes, tutorials, talks and lightning talks later this year. This interview was really more about open source and less about PyData.

The episode concludes with Learn more, on Claude Shannon and Harry Nyquist.

Something for your mind is available on

art·chiv.es

/'ärt,kīv/

at artchiv.es/s4ym/

Francois Dion
@f_dion

Something for your mind: Polymath Podcast launched

Some episodes

will have more Art content, some will have more Business content, some will have more Science content, and some will be a nice blend of different things. But for sure, the show will live up to its name and provide you with “something for your mind”. It might raise more questions than it answers, and that is fine too.

Episode 000

Listen to Something for your mind on http://Artchiv.es

Francois Dion
@f_dion