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Re:Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition by sbuttgereit on Monday August 16, 2021 @04:07PM (#28202267)
I dunno... what about csound?

https://csound.com/

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Re:Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition by jim-jim-jim on Monday August 16, 2021 @06:53PM (#28203920)
Which itself is a child of an even grander daddy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC-N

You can hear some recordings presumably made with these programs on this release: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Music-From-Mathematics/relea...

Some of it is gimmicky, some still kinda rocks.

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Re:Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition by sbuttgereit on Monday August 16, 2021 @07:06PM (#28204003)
Thanks for the tip. I hadn't realized that csound came from a longer lineage of work.
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