Shannon

Week 5: 09/21

• Used Suin's code from GitHub as a basis for transitioning tonality code from java to python
• Actually understanding the rules of tonality (basic numbering rules) before coding
• Looking into parsing excel/CSVs with Python & beginning to convert the basic analysis rules into python
• To-Do: finish up the melodic tonality analysis code in python!

Week 6: 09/28 (published 09/30, didn't hit save I think)

• Progress: behind schedule in finishing translating Java to Python code
• Understanding the numbers in the algorithms & decided to keep Suin's algorithms the same until debugging/testing stage
• Finished some of the main needed methods for parsing & running the algorithm
• Priority: working basis script, then can add in more functionality as needed
• To-Do: to finish up the last 2 methods for testing/debugging

Week 7:

• Progress: translating Java to Python
• Understand tonalness & variation
• Not worrying about Max / OSC!
• To-Do for next 2 weeks (going into fall break): finish debugging Suin's 2 rules in Python & begin developing new ideas for rules before coding

Week 8:

• Progress: converting the 8 count progression to begin on any down beat to count, not just a hard-coded 2 measures [1-2][3-4]...[7-8], but a [1-2][2-3] or even the up beat of measure[1] to the up beat of measure[2]
• Still brainstorming different rules that could measure tonalness & variation less rigidly/more complex
• To-Do: continue developing rules and begin to translate them into code

Week 9:

• Progress: pausing music rules, making a Python script to clean deepscore output
  • would like another chords rnn csv file to test script & what I have with tonalness rules so far
• Note to self: ask for tonalness/variation rule ideas

Week (11/16/2018)

• playing with ?/4 time signatures (2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4)
• creating different data structures that could compare different tonalness/variations from measure to measure

Week (11/30-12/06)

• preparing a demo: explaining...
  • & defining variation, tonalness
  • examples of manipulating variation, tonalness
  • how python reads music, csv files of chords generated by RNN
  • the rules measuring the chords generated
• finalized result: rules with
• incomplete code includes different data structures and time signatures
• https://github.gatech.edu/shwu6/robomuse-fall2018