This HACKATHON Event is a first for me. Kristin Olsen, who plays baritone for my Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra, informed me of the event and connected me to Jonathan Marmor. I have used simple effective Graphic Scores for various ensembles since the mid-70's as well as the use of playing cards, dice, numerical processes etc. I also compose using standard notation. For Saturday, a sax quartet version of my orchestra will be there to collaborate on Automatic Music. That evening, we will perform a collaborative piece from the Hackathon and a new work in our own repertoire entitled SWITCHBOARD. I composed this piece as a platform for open improvisation. It is based on the initials of each Musician performing using the alphabet to designate duration. We will also perform Terry Riley's IN C for which anyone who can play the composition is MORE than welcome to join in.
Hearing Forward!
This hackathon has always been one of my favorites, because it draws both people with an engineering background and people with a music background, and everything in between.
I like to describe it as the 'hackathon quivalent of a garage band jam session'
http://tap-pad.herokuapp.com
It uses cellular automatons to generate music and is completely open source: https://github.com/dmitric/tap-pad-web
there's even an iOS version: https://github.com/dmitric/tap-pad-ios
If someone there wants to play around with the idea I'd be honored!