Talk:Fugue

I would like to see a interpreter and example programs in Fugue. Then you can also try to make it both good program and also good music as well. --Zzo38 15:32, 6 Jun 2006 (UTC)
 * I could not find one - maybe i was searching wrong Sedimin 17:51, 6 Jun 2006 (UTC) will try later
 * Well, I finally managed to write Hello World. However, the music comes out somewhat esoteric, just like the program. It's on the list of Hello Worlds. ais523 11:20, 8 Aug 2006 (UTC)


 * I just wrote a compiler (generates 80x86 code) for Fugue. It compiles the "cat" and "hello world" examples. I uploaded the source code to the Fugue_Compiler page. Martin


 * I'd love a decompiler or a source translator that could take (respectively) a normal executable or a c program and convert it to fugue.


 * My Hello World was based on a brainfuck to Prelude to Fugue compilation chain. However, the late stages of the compile wouldn't be reproducible on anyone else's machine; they worked by translating the Prelude program into a sequence of keypresses, which were then simulated using automation APIs to trigger a customized set of keyboard shortcuts in a commercial music editing program.
 * Perhaps I should learn how MIDI actually works and redo the code. --ais523 19:12, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Other sound-based programming languages?
Has anyone else heard of any other programming languages whose source code is sound or music? This is the first I've heard of... --158.104.2.120 17:24, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Choon, at least partly. --Keymaker 19:02, 6 September 2007 (UTC)


 * And Musical-X. --Zzo38 17:11, 9 September 2007 (UTC)


 * And, as I just discovered, Velato. --Chris Pressey 04:15, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

"Pattern-based"?
I notice Fugue is categorized under Category:Pattern-based, but it doesn't seem to be pattern-based in the way Udage et al use the term. If it were pattern-based, the absolute pitches of the note values wouldn't matter and neither would their relative pitches; only the sequence of repetitions of certain previous pitches would matter. Fugue appears to instead be "delta-based" because relative pitches do matter. I'm not sure, but I suspect a truly pattern-based (in Udage's sense) music-based language might be easier to write ear-pleasing music in, because it would seem to offer more melodic and harmonic freedom -- at least on individual notes, but maybe not in the overall scheme of the tune. --Chris Pressey 04:04, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, that's a really interesting point, and it gives me an idea for a revision of Velato that's truly pattern-based (which does seem like it make composition easier). --Rottytooth 15:43, 22 December 2010 (UTC)