Since Wayland compositors handle input devices on a lower level than X11 window managers, every compositor has to figure out on their own what a “mouse wheel click” is:
(I think “Wayland compositor” is a misnomer. They are full-blown display servers that also do compositing, plus Wayland window management, plus X11 window management.)
One can only hope that all this eventually gets moved into the wlroots library. (I’m not sure if that’s possible, nor if people would want that.)
implicit music, or the idea that music naturally exudes from everything. composition is not the act of making music, but of starting with music and working backwards. #halfbakedideas
gf that is actually just function composition disguised as your romantic partner
James Tenney’s Meta Hodos and Meta Meta Hodos are an attempt to derive music theory from first principles: [[https://monoskop.org/images/1/13/Tenney_James_Meta-Hodos_and_Meta_Meta-Hodos.pdf]] #links #composition #musictheory
LC is a new music programming language that is prototype-based, strongly timed, and designed with microsound synthesis in mind: [[https://www.hnishino.com/2019/05/09/lc-a-new-computer-music-programming-language-with-three-core-features/]] #links #composition
7seconds is a composition project where composers try to compose something no longer than 7 seconds in length. [[http://www.microsound.org/projects/project.php?name=Seven%20Seconds]] #links #composition
Helmut Lachenmann has an interesting notation system for stringed instruments: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZt3UfNDNV0]] #links #composition #notation
Don Knuth - Constraint Based Composition - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_1a6bHGQGo
Genode - Sculpt with Visual Composition (VC) https://genode.org/documentation/articles/sculpt-vc
Film Composition: The Subtle Art of Cinematic Scores https://tedium.co/2018/09/06/film-composition-subtle-art/
Tourist Trap is apparently on Shudder now. Even though it’s not Giallo, I recommend Giallo fans give it a watch: much like Profundo Russo & other pre-Suspiria Argento, it combines messy storytelling with some beautiful, surreal, and terrifying shot composition.
Four AI composition tools … https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/robots-composed-the-soundtrack-for-my-home-movie-they-can-help-you-too/