Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 15:11:23 +0100
From: Mario Lang <mlang@delysid.org>
To: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org
Subject: [LAU] A text-only environment for composing electronic music?
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Hi.

I am looking for a programmable (text mode) sequencer solution.
I know that Linux has a few small languages for creating
MIDI files, like MMA. Even LilyPond can be tricked into being a MIDI
file generating language. However, none of the solutions I have seen so
far could be easily integrated as the center/hub of a full composition.

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I didn't see these text based music programs in this thread.

For a MIDI based composition environment athenacl is a very dense python based command line composition program. It does have a steep learning curve but the thick documentation is good. I don't think it is exactly what you are looking for but if you are interested in creating your own composition environment, this might be worthwhile. It seems to be intended for music students who can extend it with python.
http://www.flexatone.org/athena.html

If you are more interested in live coding ixi is a fun and easy to comprehend command line program, built on top of SuperCollider. It probably wouldn't be the center of a full composition, but its command line syntax is sweet.
http://ixi-audio.net/ixilang/index.html

Renick Bell blew me away at LAC2013 using his Conductive library for Haskell. It appears that you could compose a whole piece as a program or revise the program on the fly.
http://www.renickbell.net/doku.php?id=conductive

-- Jeff Sandys