algorithmic-musician

Senior Project, Elliot Miller, 2016

Quick-Start Guide

This project was written in Python 2.7.10. There are two main programs that can be run in this project:

1. Command line interface
2. Web server interface

Setup

Make sure Python 2.7 is installed along with tkinter, matplotlib, and pyaudio. On a debian-based system you can install all the requirements with:

[sudo] apt install python2.7 python-tk python-pip python-pyaudio
[sudo] pip install matplotlib

Command line interface

From the root directory of this project, run the command,

python generator.py [filename]

Where filename is the path to the waveform file you want the program to analyze and generate music from.

To play a wavefile you can use the player.py program:

python player.py filename.wav

Web interface

From the root directory of this project, run the command,

python server.py

Python should immediatly start a local web server on port 8080. If it was successful, python will print out Started httpserver on port 8080. Open a web browser to localhost:8080 to use the program.