Automata is an interactive music system designed to give individuals without any formal music training the opportunity to compose and perform an original piece of music.
A user sends a blank text message from their phone to automata [at] vjmanzo [dot] com . Automata gets the numbers from that person’s cell phone and equates each digit (0 – 9) to one of the scale degrees of a major scale (1-8, 9 = 2, 0 = 3).
The user can then impose a rhythm and tempo for which these scale degrees are played sequentially, determine they key and build chords from these scale degrees, and control the timbres used to synthesize these numbers. Up to four phone numbers can be loaded before a new number replaces and old one.
It was developed by V.J. Manzo (http://vjmanzo.com) and Dan Manzo (http://danmanzo.com) and released as part of the EAMIR project (http://eamir.org).
The source requires Max 7 or later and the EAMIR SDK package available through Max in the "Package Manager".
to modify this work, read the "files to change" document in each folder.
Navigate to the CONTRIBUTING.md file for guidelines on how to contribute to the project.
Music, audio, and other creative works produced using Automata are not considered Contributions and remain the sole property of their creators.
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