Text-To-Music: Any potential there?
As I was just randomly surfing the web recently, I came across a site that converts text into musical notes. It’s really kind of hard to explain, so I’ll just cut and paste the description from the website itself:
P22 Music Pro is a unique font system that expands on the concept used in the Music Text Composition Generator. It allows the user to compose music with text editing and page layout programs capable of OpenType features and contextual substitutions. P22 Music Pro covers a wide range of symbols and notation used in traditional western music composition. P22 Music Pro requires an application that uses OpenType features and is capable of contextual substitutions, such as Adobe InDesign or Illustrator.
The font used in the P22 MTCG is a basic version that closely follows the initial Cage inspired idea. Each letter, number and punctuation mark is assigned a note on the C major scale. When the user generates their composition the same substitutions are applied to their text that P22 Music Pro font performs. These substitutions are based on the frequency of phonetic sounds and letters in the English language corresponding to the most common ranges in the human voice and note durations. For more information about the font click here.
The basic idea is, you type in (or cut and paste) whatever text you want to use… it can be random gibberish, it can be structured sentences… it doesn’t matter. The generator goes through a certain process to convert your characters to notes in a C-Major scale. Then you can listen to the musical creation, and even download the MIDI file of it.
So my question is to all of you creative people out there looking for interesting ways to make music, can you turn this into something useful? It would certainly be an outside-the-box way of exploring musical sounds!
Click HERE to try the generator
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