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Rags at Web Site Demonstrate Computer Expression
By Mike Knudsen

A few weeks ago we were talking about the "mechanical" sound of
computer-generated piano music, or rather music scanned by a computer
from non-hand-played piano rolls.  I claimed that with decent software,
a patient user could add quite a lot of expression and articulation
phrasing.

Thirteen years ago I started building my own graphic composition
program, UltiMusE, and you can now hear some samples of what I can do
with it.

Even farther back when I was rebuilding and then enjoying my Duo-Art
(and finishing up a Ph.D. thesis on the side :-), I also started
composing piano rags.  Using my UltiMusE program, I have transcribed
several of these into standard MIDI files that can be downloaded from
my new Web home page:

  http://hometown.aol.com/knudsenmj/myhomepage/index.html

Although these are not hand played, I hope you'll find them more
expressive than the early non-hand piano rolls.  Feel free to email me
any comments.  I'd also be interested in having rolls cut from some of
my rags, via the .MID files.

Mike Knudsen


(Message sent Wed 10 Nov 1999, 04:08:11 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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