Alex McLean

Making music with text

Haskell hack

by Alex on May 22, 2009

Finally off the back burner, some music in haskell.

This is very much in progress, more ideas to implement but I think it’s getting quite interesting already. Beat rotation heavily influenced by douglas.

32 thoughts on “Haskell hack

  1. Jeff says:

    Neat.

    Do you plan to release this?
    How portable is this, will it run on win32?

  2. Please, show us the code! :-)

  3. douglas says:

    WOW! I don’t think 200000/60 is even legal in the USA! This sounds great.

  4. Darrell says:

    Very cool, much more fun the boring java I write all day. What is the point of a language you have to compile AND interpret, Come on Sun, Pick One!

  5. vlad says:

    Nice hack. Show us more!

  6. Linus says:

    You have way too much time :) Great work :)

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  8. Nicolas says:

    Say, I wouldn’t like to be debugging this at 3am

  9. Alex says:

    That is awesome. Love your work :) I’d like to use something like this for game music.

  10. Jiyunatori says:

    damn sweet ! I’m trying to build something similar … that would be nice to release the code !

  11. Dan says:

    This looks much like Haskore … have you perchance been reading the Haskell School of Expression? ;)

  12. Alex says:

    Thanks a lot for all the encouragement! I will post something about how this works, and release the code in good time.
    Dan: I bought HSoE but didn’t like it too much, I’m not into midi. Interesting that this looks similar to haskore though, I’ll take another look at that sometime.

  13. Devin says:

    Alex, I love you buddy, but I’ve been to your site at least 100 times looking for code. Pretty please?

  14. Shae Erisson says:

    Wow very cool! When do we get to play with the source?

  15. Alex says:

    Sorry to not release the code straight away. I need to think through some ideas first, particularly as this is probably going to form part of my PhD research.

  16. Kassen says:

    I really like this, it seems like a logical next step in your ultra-high-speed livecoding setups. The use of the command buffer in editing is nice as well; I tend to get lost in the amount of code buffers I’m using quite early on in my sets and this solves that.

    I do feel that this mode of performance, while a efficient way of getting data into a sequencer compared to -say- Live it also seems to go at the expense of public thought. Now; I much prefer a new look at sequencing over TOPLAP compliance for it’s own sake but I was still hiping you could comment on that.

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  19. Basement Hum says:

    Very nice! I hadn’t seen any sound stuff done in haskell before. Exciting stuff. (via em411)

  20. nicolas weil says:

    that music drove my cat crazy ! he tried to enter inside the computer to kill that bug … sounds like the music made with Pure Data.
    congratulation,
    nico

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  23. Scott says:

    You’re gonna make Richie Hawtin jealous if you keep this up. Awesome stuff dude.

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  25. Gabrielg1976 says:

    Very Nice I like this I never played Haskell but i think im going to have to start..

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  27. josiano says:

    haha, that’s really cool =)

    [rock]

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  30. Karl says:

    Brilliant!

  31. Wax78 says:

    Damn, that’s something to see that for a coder :D

    The way you play with it is also great, good music.

  32. shookees says:

    Nice, although the distortion is friggin’ irritating :p

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