An Overview of PWGL, a Visual Programming Environment for Music

Laurson, Mikael; Kuuskankare, Mika; Norilo, Vesa

doi:10.1162/comj.2009.33.1.19

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“…This programming path started in 1956 with the MUSICOMP 2 language of Lejaren Hiller and Robert Baker (both chemists at that time) at the University of Illinois using an Illiac I [Baker and Hiller 1963;Hiller and Baker 1964]. Main CAC languages include PatchWork [Laurson and Duthen 1989], Common Music [Taube 1991], Haskore [Hudak et al 1996], Elody [Orlarey et al 1997], OpenMusic [Assayag et al 1999] and PWGL [Laurson et al 2009]. …”

Section: Computer Music Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Synchronous programming in audio processing

Barkati

Jouvelot

2013

ACM Comput. Surv.

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The adequacy of a programming language to a given software project or application domain is often considered a key factor of success in software development and engineering, even though little theoretical or practical information is readily available to help make an informed decision. In this paper, we address a particular version of this issue by comparing the adequacy of general-purpose synchronous programming languages to more domain-specific languages (DSL) in the field of computer music. More precisely, we implemented and tested the same lookup table oscillator example program, one of the most classical algorithms for sound synthesis, using a selection of significant synchronous programming languages, half of which designed as specific music languages -Csound, Pure Data, SuperCollider, ChucK, Faust -and the other half being general synchronous formalisms -Signal, Lustre, Esterel, Lucid Synchrone and C with the OpenMP Stream Extension (Matlab/Octave is used for the initial specification). The advantages of these two approaches are discussed, providing insights to language designers and possibly software developers of both communities regarding programming languages design for the audio domain.

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Section: Computer Music Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Synchronous programming in audio processing

Barkati

Jouvelot

2013

ACM Comput. Surv.

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“…PatchWork meanwhile developed into PWGL [Laurson et al 2009] and the library is now called PWGLConstraints. Nevertheless, this article uses the old name PWConstraints to refer to both versions of the system because from the user's point of view these systems are very similar.…”

Section: Pwconstraintsmentioning

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Constraint programming systems for modeling music theories and composition

Anders

Miranda

2011

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Constraint programming is well suited for the computational modeling of music theories and composition: its declarative and modular approach shares similarities with the way music theory is traditionally expressed, namely by a set of rules which describe the intended result. Various music theory disciplines have been modeled, including counterpoint, harmony, rhythm, form, and instrumentation. Because modeling music theories "from scratch" is a complex task, generic music constraint programming systems have been proposed that predefine the required building blocks for modeling a range of music theories. After introducing the field and its problems in general, this survey compares these generic systems according to a number of criteria such as the range of music theories these systems support.

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“…Score-PMC is based on the PMC constraint solver (Laurson 1996) and exists inside the visual programming language PWGL (Laurson, Kuuskankare, and Norilo 2009). Only the pitch structure can be constrained in Score-PMC; the rhythmic structure is always given by the user.…”

Section: Contemporary Constraint Solvers In Musicmentioning

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PWMC, a Constraint-Solving System for Generating Music Scores

Sandred

2010

Computer Music Journal

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An Overview of PWGL, a Visual Programming Environment for Music

Cited by 37 publications

References 9 publications

Synchronous programming in audio processing

Synchronous programming in audio processing

Constraint programming systems for modeling music theories and composition

PWMC, a Constraint-Solving System for Generating Music Scores

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