Clara Empricost

Clara Empricost stands for "Condition List Action Rejection Algorithm for the Evaluation of Music at Pseudo-Random Idea COnstruction STage". It is a C++ program that is supposed to generate music. I wrote it at school in 1996 as an experiment, and it generated some interest in the Cambridge University New Music Society toward the end of 1997 and has since been featured in a Generative Creativity course at Sussex University.

Article in Cambridge University New Music Society magazine, 1997
How it Works
Download source code
Result of 1996 experiment, running for about a week on spare processor cycles of a network of 25MHz DOS PCs at RNIB New College Worcester:
- One (sonata form)
- Two (canzona)
- Three (minuet)
- Four (rondo)
Another canzona generated on three Linux machines at Cambridge University in January 2001 (someone asked me to get the thing going again)

The quality of MIDI files will depend to a large extent on that of your sound card or MIDI playing equipment.