Dick Pountain is editorial fellow of PC Pro. You can listen to his foot-tapping sample tune at pcpro. link/270dick, but he will deny responsibility if you put your back out trying to dance to it.
I have mentioned here a few dozen times how deeply I’m into music. I play guitar, bass and Dobro; I regularly attend chamber and orchestral concerts at Southbank and Wigmore Hall; I listen to classical, jazz, blues, rock, bluegrass, country, dubstep, reggae, EDM and much more on Spotify, both at home and on Bluetooth earbuds while walking on heath or park. But, for the past 20-odd years I’ve also been working on my own system of computerised composition.
It started in the mid-1990s, using Turbo Pascal to write my own music library that let me…
