the goal of this article
- the goal of this article is not to teach the user to play a musical instrument or compose music, though it may help in that process
- rather, the user, after reading this article, should have
the elements required to
- create a music machine
- a software program for a computer with a sound card
- give the music machine a set of rules to use in
- composing and
- performing a simple piece of music
- that the average person would recognize as a piece of music
- create a music machine