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Description
MusicPainter is a networked graphical composing environment which aims to encourage sharing and collaboration between users. It has an easy-to-use composing interface, which turns music score into colorful painting. It guides the users to begin composing by creating mini-composition such as a melody or rhythm pattern, which we called musical brick. These bricks are collected and organized as a shared composing resource, which becomes a dynamic source of inspiration. The users can also browse and hack music pieces composed by others through the music browser. MusicPainter is not only a composing interface, it provides an environment where users can gather and learn how to compose from each other. It creates a place where different musical perspectives collide.
For more background, see this MusicPainter introduction page.
Software Download
MusicPainter for XO software package: musicpainter.tar (TAR)
Installation
- see the installation steps from csoundxo download page
- cd /home/olpc/Activities
- tar -xvf Musicpainter.tar
Execution
- cd ./Musicpainter.activity
- Python Musicpainter.py (it takes a while to launch the program)