..It's Back Up

The tune generator is working again.  I just had to make a few updates to be compatible with a newer version of CLISP.  This is a simplistic rendering of the underlying software, but it is fun to play with nonetheless.

Enjoy!

Tune Generator Down for a Bit

My apologies, but the online version of the tune generator is currently not working.  It has been hosted on the CS computer at Marlboro, but the CGI script is no longer doing its job.  When I try to navigate to it from the CS student work page, sometimes it comes up fine, but when I refresh the page, the script has only a blank offering.  Rather than try to keep it up on a remote server, I may try to host it myself.  I'm looking into using XAMPP, the very simple Apache server installation, for hosting it at home. 

Wish me luck!

Meet Dory

This is Dory, the newest (and cutest) member of my household. Her father is a black lab and her mother is a German Shepard, husky mix, both from Waldoboro. She is about 12 weeks old, about 16 pounds, and growing faster than bamboo. The photo above is from about age 8-weeks, and the one below is within the last few days. She's a real sweetie! (When she's not savaging our possessions to shreds or pooping on the floor). Smart, too. We love her to death already.

Graduated from Marlboro!

Graduation was Sunday. Though the weather people were calling for rain all day, it actually turned out to be beautiful weather throughout the whole event, and only spattered a little rain in the late afternoon as everyone was heading home. I was lucky to have a nice assortment of family and friends present, and the whole ordeal seems kind of a blur. It was also my Grandpop's 80th birthday that day, and we took him out to the Chelsea Royal diner for late lunch and a surprise birthday cake.

I'm in Maine now, at least for the next week or so. Plans for the summer are starting to develop, and it's looking like a good time. It feels quite nice to be done with school!

I'm almost done

I had my concert last night, and it seemed to go pretty well. A fair number of people came, and the sound was good in the theater space. It was more difficult than I thought to play computer generated tunes alongside those I've been playing for years. Some were downright awkward. But others were actually quite believable, and to test how believable they really were, I would play set without mentioning what the tunes were, and then ask the audience for a show of hands to see what was composed by whom (or by what). Out of the six CG tunes I played at the concert, alongside a dozen human-composed tunes, about half of them evenly split the audience's opinion. One tune, which I played alongside a hornpipe called The Wren, actually got mistaken for being "fake," and Tune #4 was thought to be "real."

I'm being pressured, now, to make a CD of my computer tunes. That might happen some time this summer.