Declarative Amsterdam

Declarative Music: Using affix grammars to compose music

Lambert Meertens
IFIP, the International Federation for Information Processing, held a computer-composed music competition in connection with IFIP Congress 68. I submitted a string quartet that received a special mention from the jury. The program that generated the score for the string quartet was based on an affix grammar, a two-level grammar formalism that I had invented earlier to generate natural-language text.
Presentation, 8 November 2024

Lambert Meertens became fascinated with computers at the age of 15, when he realized that there was no limit to the possibilities of computers but for the limitations of human imagination. This fascination has lasted to today. His research interests have ranged from Artificial Intelligence and Computer Arts to programming language design and correct-by-construction program development formalisms.