CALMUS 4.3 Demo

                                Introduction

CALMUS (Calculated Music) is a computer programme that is designed for
musical composition. It is specially constructed for 20th century music and
deals with musical problems that occur in this music, providing special
designed tools and options to handle them.

The compositional process in CALMUS is both sequential and parallel. The
programme sequentially calculates values of musical objects in a
composition, while at the same time constructs melodies for each object.
Among concepts used in the programme are: Musical objects, polyphony,
harmony, melody, MIDI, harmony, and graphical representation.

The user interface for the programme is based on standard Macintosh
features, extended with objects like controlling number boxes and graphs for
both control and display.

CALMUS is written in Macintosh Common Lisp with the Common Lisp Object
oriented Support, CLOS. The program has been under construction since autumn
1988. It is a part of Licentiate of Music degree in composition from the
Sibelius Akatemia in Finland.

                                  Documents

The size of the CALMUS project covers more than 400 pages, including the
documents CALMUS THE TUTORIAL and CALMUS THE THEORY, and a computer
programme for an algorithmic composition. The programme size is 2.1 MB.

                             Compositional Range

The compositional range for CALMUS is from a piece for a solo instrument to
a piece for a large orchestra.

For additional information, including some of the produced compositions,
visit the CALMUS web page at:  
    http://rvik.ismennt.is/~kjol/

                            Hardware Requirements

CALMUS runs on all computers in the Macintosh series that have at least a
12-inch monitor, a hard disk with 5 MB of free space and at least 5 MB of
free internal memory.

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