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News
Read the Computer Music Journal Review by Dave Phillips of Notes from the Metalevel.
New features in CM 2.11.0 (CVS HEAD):
- Added Gnuplot support for plotting data sets and output from musical processes. See new dictionary entries
gnuplotandgnuplot-filefor examples and more information.
About
Common Music (CM) is an object-oriented music composition environment. It produces sound by transforming a high-level representation of musical structure into a variety of control protocols for sound synthesis and display. Common Music defines an extensive library of compositional tools and an API through which the composer can easily modify and extend the system.
Common Music began in 1989 as a response to the proliferation of different audio hardware, software and computers that resulted from the introduction of low cost computers. As choices increased it became clear that composers would be well served by a portable, powerful and consistent interface to the myriad sound rendering possibilities. Work on Common Music began in 1989 when the author was a guest composer at CCRMA, Stanford University. Much of the system as it exists today was implemented at the Institut für Musik und Akustik at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Germany, where the author worked for five years. Common Music continues to evolve today at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where the author is now an associate professor of music composition. In 1996 Common Music received First Prize in the computer-assisted composition category at the 1er Concours International de Logiciels Musicaux in Bourges, France.
CM is released under the LLGPL (Lisp Lesser General Public License).
Download
Sources, runtime images and CVS access are all available from the Sourceforge project:
- Stable releases are available from the project release page.
- The most current development sources are available via CVS.
- A nightly (1:33AM PST) snapshot of CVS HEAD is available at http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/cm.tgz
Documentation
- Notes from the Metalevel, an Introduction to Algorithmic Music Composition
- Common Music Dictionary
- Installing Common Music
- Running Common Music under (X)Emacs
- Tutorials (cm version 2.7.0 or higher)
- Source Examples
- Change History
Implementation
Common Music can be used with the following synthesis and display applications:
A. Csound (sound synthesis) B. Fomus (music notation) C. Common Lisp Music (sound synthesis) D. Common Music Notation (music notation) E. MIDI (synthesis control) F. Midishare (MIDI I/O) G. Plotter (data visualization) H. Open Sound Control (synthesis control) I. Supercollider (sound synthesis) J. Portmidi (MIDI I/O) K. RTS and Receive (real time extensions)
Common Music has both Common Lisp and Scheme bindings and works in the following configurations:
| Linux | OS X | Windows | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACL | A–CDE––HI–– | A–CDE––HI–– | A––DE––HI–– |
| CLISP | A––DE––HI–– | A––DE––HI–– | A––DE––HI–– |
| CMUCL | ABCDEFGHIJK | ABCDEF–HIJ– | |
| ECL | A––DE––HI–– | A––DE––HI–– | A––DE––HI–– |
| LispWorks | A–––E––HI–– | A–––E––HI–– | A–––E––HI–– |
| OpenMCL | ABCDEFGHIJK | ||
| SBCL | ABCDE–GHIJK | ABCDE––HIJK | |
| Gauche | A–––E––HI–– | A–––E––HI–– | |
| Guile | A–––E––HI–– | A–––E––HI–– | |
| STklos | A–––E––HI–– | A–––E––HI–– | |
- Allegro Common Lisp (ACL)
- A commercial CL for Linux, Windows and OSX. Includes a native CLOS and a graphical interface.
- CLISP
- An opensource ANSI CL that runs practically everywhere. Includes a native CLOS, is actively supported.
- CMUCL
- An opensource ANSI CL for Linux. Includes a very good compiler.
- ECL
- Embeddable Common Lisp. An opensource ASCI CL that can be embedded in C++ applications. Includes a native CLOS.
- Gauche Scheme
- An opensource R5RS Scheme with an object system very similar to GOOPS. Quick startup, built-in system interface, native multilingual support.
- Guile Scheme
- Gnu's opensource Scheme for Linux, OSX, and Cygwin. Includes GOOPS, the Guile object system.
- Lispworks
- A commercial implementation of ANSI Common Lisp running on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX LispWorks is source code compatible across all supported platforms and offers many features including an advanced Common Lisp compiler, runtime system, language extensions and the Common LispWorks IDE.
- OpenMCL
- An opensource version MCL for OSX and LinuxPPC. Includes a native CLOS, true (native) multi-processing, callbacks, is actively supported.
- Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)
- An opensource ANSI CL (offshoot from CMUCL) for Linux and OS X. Includes a very good compiler and is actively supported.
- STklos
- An opensource Scheme. Fast and light with an efficient and powerful object system based on CLOS and an easy connection to GTK+ toolkit.
CM Links
- λgtk
- Drew Krause's CM code archive
- Portmidi installation for OS X
- Linux Portmidi installation
- Thomas Burdick's SBCL callback support for SBCL 0.8.n
Common Lisp Links
- Common Lisp HyperSpec
- Common Lisp: the Language (2nd Edition)
- Practical Common Lisp (online book)
- Common-Lisp.net
- Common Lisp Resources
Scheme Links
Contact
Please contact me with questions or comments or to tell me of any compositions you create using CM. To receive email information about CCRMA's family of Lisp music programs (CM, CLM and CMN) please join the CMDIST mailing list by e-mailing your request to: cmdist-request@ccrma.stanford.edu.
Rick Taube
Associate Professor Composition/Theory
School of Music
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL
Net: taube@uiuc.edu
Fax: +1 (217) 355 5780
Vox: +1 (217) 244 2684
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