athenaCL is an algorithmic composition tool created by Christopher Ariza.
Or, as described by the author more specifically, it is a tool for:
modular poly-paradigm algorithmic music composition in a cross-platform interactive command-line environment.
The manual is built using mdBook you will
find the source code inside doc/ directory. You can read it
here.
Linux builds require ALSA and PipeWire development libraries. On Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install pkg-config libasound2-dev libpipewire-0.3-dev libclang-dev
Run this once after you cloned this repo, to download the built-in sound font:
make init
Then you can run the program using:
make run
make test will run not only rust tests, but python tests as well.
cargo-nextest is required.
Bundling requires cargo-bundle. Only
macOS is configured currently. To bundle a package:
make pack-macos
After that the .app package should be located at
target/release/bundle/osx/athenaCL.app.
Initially this repo was forked to update the code to python3. But then I considered to build a GUI version of athenaCL. Today the code is adapted for GUI needs:
- it's modified to be easily embeddable into binary (using RustPython and freezing);
- some features related to CLI are removed, to make it work better with RustPython;
- while the CLI version might still work, it's not supported, so expect bugs.
If you're interested in the original (CLI) version, check out the
pregui tag.