Posted on Sunday 21 August 2005 - Popularity: 2%
… with math and the terminal. Sadly the audience “god” isn’t a very big one and so the common comments for this app sound more like:
Interesting application, but I have no idea how to get music out of it.
The app I’m talking about is athenaCL. It’s a bit like the complete opposite of Garageband. I’m sure some hackers will love this app, but when was the last time you did see (or hear) a hacker make great music? I would say those hackers are nearly as hard to find as gods, but if you think you actually have the skills and talent, than give this one a try, you could actually learn something from it and I’m sure the creators of this app would love to have a great demo-song (if you know what I mean).
Fredi
August 22nd, 2005 at 3:43 pm
Thanks for your comments about athenaCL. It is indeed the opposite of Garageband in that it prohibits users from making canned and predictable music. However, a user could use athenaCL to generate MIDI or digital audio for use in Garageband. The command-line interface may be more suitable to some hackers, but the system was designed by a composer for composers of computer music. The demos that you link to are elementary, clincal demos, designed to demonstrate basic features; plenty of other music made with athenaCL is available via www.flexatone.net. Other music may use athenaCL, but you would never know, as it sounds like music, not like software.