[linux-audio-dev] Open Music

[assayag gerard]

>  From: David Gerard Matthews <dgm4+ at pitt.edu>
>  To: linux-audio-dev at music.columbia.edu
>  Subject: [linux-audio-dev] Open Music
>  Date: 25 Oct 2002 23:39:57 -0400
>
>  Is anyone working on this: http://www.ircam.fr/equipes/repmus/OpenMusic?
>    Apparently they GPL'd the sources, and you can download it, but it's
>  written in Lisp, and MCL PPC Lisp at that.  However, as they put it:
>
>  "At the beginning, this will make sense only to people owning the
>  Digitool compiler. Although we are conscious that this limitation does
>  not fit clearly into the GPL framework, we think that making the sources
>  available is an oppurtunity to raise collaborations leading to new
>  versions of OM that would depend only on open sources compiler,
>  particularly on linux platforms"
>
>  I did speak with some Ircam people at Darmstadt this past summer, and I
>  don't think they really have the interest in doing the port themselves.
>   However, Ircam certainly isn't anti-Linux, so they might be
>  able/willing to help/be persuaded to work on it.  (François, and
>  Norbert, if you're on this list, feel free to comment.)
>
>  -dgm


Until now, we did'nt have the internal resources to develop a full 
linux version of OpenMusic. However a fragmental prototype of 
OM/Linux based on cmucl had been developed by Camilo Rueda and his 
team at Cali Univsersity in Colombia. See 
http://escher.puj.edu.co/openmusic/
Things are changing now, thanks to the Agnula (A GNU Linux Audio 
Distribution) project. This project is funded by the European 
Commission, coordinated by Tempo Reale in Florence, and involves 
Ircam (coordinator : Francois Dechelle) as a partner. See 
http://www.agnula.org/
Thanks to Francois Dechelle's support, we may now envision the 
integration of OmLinux in the following monthes, as well as the 
definition of a coherent development strategy between OMLinux and 
OM/OsX.
More info to come soon...

Gérard Assayag
Music Representation Team
IRCAM