TZtzury·May 10, 2026Submission
Open Music – visual programming / computer-aided music composition environment
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openmusic
Common Lisp2023–2026
openmusic-project / openmusic
openmusic
The OpenMusic visual programming / computer-aided composition environment
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What it is
The OpenMusic visual programming / computer-aided composition environment
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Observed mentions: 2023-01-17 20:17:21 UTC to 2026-05-10 16:23:08 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesOpen Music has precompiled LispWorks applications for Windows/86, Linux/86, macOS 86&ARM.
https://github.com/openmusic-project/openmusic/releases/tag/...
LispWorks is 'relatively' popular for Lisp-based music applications like Open Music, om#, Scorecloud, OpusModus and a few others, because the native GUI toolkit for Windows, Linux and macOS allows to write portable GUI applications. One pays for being able to use a niche language able to write such applications.
In Opusmodus: Common Lisp Music Composition SystemOther Common Lisp applications for music, written in LispWorks, http://www.lispworks.com :
ScoreCloud, Music Notation: https://scorecloud.com
MusicEase, Music Notation: https://www.musicease.com/
OpenMusic, Music composition with a visual programming language: https://github.com/openmusic-project/openmusic/ , https://openmusic-project.github.io/openmusic/
OM#, originally based on OpenMusic: https://github.com/cac-t-u-s/om-sharp , https://cac-t-u-s.github.io
Most of these applications are available for Mac and Windows, some even for Linux.
OpusModus, https://opusmodus.com (mentioned in the article) now is on Macs (Intel / Apple Silicon) and an upcoming version is promised for Windows
In Common Lisp and Music Composition