Here's the first milestone with melodic instruments.

Here's milestone 1, a little drum beat exploring the current abilities of the Drummer.

A little while ago I decided to stop working on the drummer and move on to the bass player (which is a lot of fun, btw!). The drummer doesn't do everything I want, of course, but it's starting to groove and do some nice things. If this was a band, it would be a beginner, but very keen. That said, it's super precise with timing and dynamic control, so I guess not a beginner drummer after all... ;) Read on if you want more details.

I'm working on my first Drummer component (that's one of the players in layer #3), and this is already bringing up some interesting questions and design challenges. Here's some thoughts about it:

Whole-Play consists of many separate components interacting with one another, following certain protocols. These components are distributed into three layers:

Whole-Play is a musical framework that explores the interaction between improvisation and composition and which, through the use of computer programming, generates new exciting performing environments.