alexcouper / gitmusic

Lightning talk fodder: turn the repo into a (rather awful) piece of music. Not for real life use.

gitmusic

Lightning talk fodder: turn the repo into a (rather awful) piece of music

Installation

 $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

get_git_data.py

Usage:

    python get_git_data.py <filename> > create_midi_input.txt

filename should contain content in the following format::

Date; author

eg

    Fri Jan 3 16:07:02 2014;Alex Couper
    Fri Jan 3 15:10:48 2014;Alex Couper

To create a file in this form, you can use the git command:

    git log --after=2013-12-31 --until=2015-01-01 --format='%ad;%an' --date=local > get_git_data_input.txt

create_midi.py

Usage:

    python create_midi.py <filename>

filename should contain content in the following format::

    Ignored Content <> space delimited items

eg:

    2014/01/02 06:00 <> HM SF AC
    2014/01/02 12:00 <> SA AC NB NB HS HM HM RK AC
    2014/01/02 18:00 <>
    2014/01/03 00:00 <> HS

Each item in the space delimited items is assigned a note. All notes for a line are played together. If a line occurs where only one item exists, the level that the notes are transposed is increased by TRANSPOSITION_INCREASE.

A midi file is written to live.mid.

A example midi file generated from this can be found in examples.