810:025 Computational Modeling and Simulation
It is worth noting that NetLogo is noteworthy
Turtles can be Traned to play music
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star played by the talented trumpet playing NetLogo turtles.
- Happy Birthday song as an instrumental piece. Making music with NetLogo turtle graphics software.
- Bach's Prelude in C and other experiments, including chords:
www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/025/logo/BachPreludeInC.txt, not quite completed. Turtles need
to memorize and transcribe measures 26 through 35 yet! :-)
- Try this out - NetLOGO Sounds and Sights show with Square Dancing Turtles and many musical instruments.
set theNotes [60 62 64 65 67 69 71 72 71 69 67 65 64 62 60]
set theInstruments [ "Sitar" "Trombone" "Trumpet" "Harmonica"
"Tubular Bells" "Honky-tonk Piano"
"Marimba" "Flute" ]
NetLogo is FREE for educational use, and very easy to install.
Now hear this: It comes with the following musical example models.
- Beatbox NetLogo model.
- Composing with Composer.
- Musical Phrase Example plays Beethoven's 5th famous 4 note phrase, plus a few more. Actually 8 notes, but not all 8 are 8th notes. :-) 6 8th notes and 2 half notes. Does anyone have change for a 20?
- NetLogo Code for the Musical Phrase Example.
- Percussion Workbench model.
- NetLogo Sound Workbench model.
810:025 Section 01 - 11 TTh Spring 2010
Outline: Topics, LAC credit, software packages, and examples...
