![]() To this end I developed various slippery chicken methods to add/alter score elements “by hand” before generating scores. Of course there are times when 100% algorithmic score generation is just not possible or desirable. All of this is generated first by slippery chicken then auto-rendered by Lilypond before being auto-imported into the MaxMSP environment for performance. Again, notice below the near-perfect layout along with the use of more custom but still algorithmically-placed graphics, colours, note-heads, etc. These pieces allow musicians to tweak various fundamental parameters of the generative algorithms to produce a custom score and electronics. Without this near-perfect layout generated by Lilypond I wouldn’t have undertaken my hyperboles series of works. See below the last system of you are coming, for example, noting the perfect legibility, with no overlapping items despite attached multiline text and custom graphics attached to notes. The PDFs generated by Lilypond are nothing short of astounding in fact, particularly when it comes to the automatic and almost flawless layout it produces. Lilypond did and continues to do well for me and a number of other slippery chicken users. My room was in a house on stilts jutting out to sea. I wrote the vast majority of the Lilypond-generating code in 3-4 days in Ko Lanta Old Town, a small village on an island in Southwest Thailand. ![]() I remember I’d taken off to South-East Asia for an extended coding retreat and to work on you are coming into us who cannot withstand you for Ensemble Aventure. Instead of MusicXML I developed Lilypond output instead. So I passed, with a view to look again at some point in the future. ![]() Though MusicXML could and still can capture microtonality and many other weird and wonderful things that go way beyond what MIDI can encapsulate, Sibelius didn’t even notate quarter-tone accidentals, never mind various marks and now fairly standard note-heads that my scores required. After playing around with mainly Sibelius’s MusicXML import functionality, however, I gave up on the idea. With its 3.0 version status that year, MusicXML was showing maturity and was definitely a contender for slippery chicken output. Back in 2011, after several years of using either CMNor Sibelius (the latter via MIDI file import), I was considering alternative score output formats for my algorithmic composition software slippery chicken.
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