Compositions

Some of my musical compositions.

Tooling

• Notation with LilyPond
• MIDI Playback via FluidSynth
• Workflow via entr

Workflow

• Install LilyPond to somewhere available to your $PATH, I use ~/bin/lilypond

cat ~/bin/lilypond

#!/bin/bash
exec DIR/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond "$@"

• Install FluidSynth, I used brew install fluidsynth.

• Install entr, I like to use it for auto recompiling with lilypad:

$ cd crash/
$ ls -d * | entr -s 'lilypond -o crash crash.ly'

This outputs a .midi and .pdf file

$ tree crash
crash
├── crash.ly
├── crash.midi
└── crash.pdf

• Playback with a playmidi alias as at this handy link for How to Play Midi Files from Terminal

$ playmidi crash.midi