Documentation and resources
Main documentation
The OpenMusic main documentation and user manuals edited and hosted at IRCAM (last updated for OM 6.6, 2011):
Other online doc
Some older online tutorial pages:
- OM Tutorials: Online pages corresponding to the tutorial patches available in OM.
- Zn Tutorial. Algebraic tools for music analysis and composition (by. M. Andreatta).
- L’analyse type Set Theorie dans Open Music
Other resources of interest
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The OM Composer’s Book
A collection of essays written by composers about their use of OpenMusic and computer-aided composition in their musical works. Collection Musique/Sciences – Ircam / Editions Delatour France.
3rd party material & contributions
- Yoshiaki Onishi’s OpenMusic Tutorial Sessions [2022]
- Algorithmic composer OpenMusic tutorials / video [2010-2011]
- Federico Bonacossa’s YouTube tutorials [2013]
- Didier Debril’s tutorial [FR] / Analyse Set Theory
- Peter Ivan Edwards’s 3209 Patches
- Takuya Imahori’s OM pages [JP]
- Cesare Saldicco YouTube tutorials [2010, ITA]
- Jean-Michel Darremont:
Learn Lisp !
- Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel
- Common Lisp, the Language, 2nd Edition (aka CLtL2) by Guy L. Steele Jr.
- Lisp in Small Parts by David Johnson-Davies
- Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp by David B. Lamkins
- On Lisp by Paul Graham.
- COMMON LISP: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation by David S. Touretzky.
- => For musicians ! Lisp as a second language by Peter Desain and Henkjan Honing. [alternative link here]
- => En Français : Traité de Programmation en Common Lisp par Robert Strandh et Irène Durand
- A short introduction to Lisp by R. Bjork (Gordon College, MA / computer science department)
They talk about OM…
- Tristan Murail invited talk at IRCAM: “OpenMusic in my life” (2018)
- Philippe Hurel using OM (2015)
- Philippe Leroux: Images d’une oeuvre n° 18 : Quid sit musicus ? (2014)
Reviews
- OM 6.7 on LinuxMAO (2014)
- OpenMusic review on Linux Weekly News (Dave Philips, 2013)