Raymond May, Jr’s MIDI Game of Life sequencer is a free music sequencer made in the JAVA visual arts IDE and library Processing.
It runs a loop of varying lengths selected by the user through the game of life algorithm. Each cell of the grid represents a pitch. In the current implementation, like colors are the same pitch – cells’ octave can be scaled along the y axis.
This is well suited for generating drum sequences or melodic material on the fly. The sequencer runs live and can be played as an instrument by drawing new cells while the game is running.
MIDI Game of Life is based on the original code by Ruin Wesen and makes use of their RWmidi JAVA/Processing library.
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I used it here:
http://organofqwerty.blogspot.com/2009/02/free-improv-mashup.html
Huh, Thats funny, I created something extremely similar to this based on the same Wesen screen cast. You can find it here
http://www.grantmuller.com/projects/game-of-life/
Mine is more of a sequencer bank (six of the wesen sequencers, with a step sequence and drum sequence mode). This is very neat.