What is Nodal

Nodal is a generative software application for
composing music.
It uses a novel method for the notation and
playing of MIDI based music.

How does it work

This method is based around the concept of a
user-defined graph. The graph consists of nodes
(musical events) and edges (connections between
events). You interactively define the graph,
which is then traversed by any number of voices.
These voices play the musical events as they
encounter them on the graph. The time taken to
travel from one node to another is based on the
length of the edges that connect the nodes. Nodal
allows you to create complex, changing sequences
using just a few simple elements. Its unique
visual representation shows a structural
representation for generative systems that you
can edit and interact with in real-time as the
composition plays.

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~cema/nodal/

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