• Name: Andreas Mahling
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• Country: Germany
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• UnauthorizedBiography: Andreas Mahling was born in 1961 (Germany), studied Informatics at the University of Stuttgart and music composition and music theory at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart. He did his doctoral thesis on knowledge-based computer music composition. Between 1990 and 1992, he and his students developed a pool of musical objects (the knowledge base), MIDI interfaces (software) and editors for CMN, sequencing, arranging and for manipulating Musikalische Gestalten.

  In addition to his job as co-founder of a software company, he teaches computer music composition at the music conservatory at Stuttgart, Germany, since 1989. Some of his work was published in the ICMC-Proceedings 1988, 1990, 1991. Programming experience includes LISP and SMALLTALK.

  In 1996 he started to develop a new system for computer aided composition, called MusicTalk. The name stems from the programming language on which it is based: Smalltalk. MusicTalk includes several compositional paradigms which can be seamlessly extended and integrated by its users. One paradigm follows the stream-approach of Rick Taube's Common Music, but adds a dialog-oriented interface to help users in assembling their compositional algorithms without the knowledge of a programming language. It also adds a couple of transforming procedures like STRUCTURAL morphing, parameter-mapping and arranging procedures. Users can extend the system at any level because it is available with full source code. A beta version of MusicTalk can be downloaded from the MusicTalk homepage. http://www.s.netic.de/mahling/musictalk.html

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