Index Grammars, Music, and Formal Languages This series of articles explores an unusual territory: where formal language theory meets algorithmic music. The common thread is BP2SC, a transpiler that converts musical grammars from the Bol Processor into SuperCollider patterns. Each article is designed to be accessible without academic prerequisites, yet rigorous enough to serve as […]
Index Grammars, Music and Formal Languages This article series explores unusual territory: where formal language theory meets algorithmic music. The common thread is BP2SC, a transpiler that converts musical grammars from Bol Processor into SuperCollider patterns. Each article is designed to be accessible without academic prerequisites, yet rigorous enough to serve as a reference. The […]
Explore homomorphisms, variables, and context in BP3. Discover how these mechanisms go beyond context-free grammars for music. Read more to learn more now!
Learn to distinguish terminals and non-terminals in BP3. Discover how musical alphabets structure your grammars for algorithmic music composition and theory.
BPscript modernizes Bol Processor (BP3). It makes 40 years of powerful formal grammars accessible: simple, typed, browser-executable.
Master the key concepts of formal grammars with BP3: alphabets, terminals, and non-terminals. Essential for creating your algorithmic music!
Introduction to SuperCollider, the programming language dedicated to sound. Patterns, live coding, real-time synthesis: discover why we chose it for BP2SC.
Discover how BP3’s flags and decremental weights model the progressive exhaustion of a musical pattern and conditional execution. Essential dynamic control!
Variables, homomorphisms, wildcards, and context markers: explore BP3’s context-sensitive mechanisms with concrete musical examples.
Discover how Petri nets and process algebras (CCS, CSP) model concurrency and musical polymetry. An essential guide for formalizing music.