This thread,
http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-1886-minimalist-melody-generator-anyone
And more specifically this post by sunji

"I've been contemplating doing something similar with Lsystems for some time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system). However my brain has never been up to the task. an Lsystem patch could build some pretty neato melodies, I bet."

Has got me thinking about L-systems, and other generative systems.
http://www.pawfal.org/index.php?page=LsystemComposition this is probably the best page i've found in relation to the topic, and I would like to know more.

So any links or suggested reading you could provide me with would be pretty excellent.

Also, i see there is a simple example in the GEM documentation.
I can make some sense from this, but not a whole lot.

If i were to replace the gemlist's with floats i might have a system usable with audio though.

So, to reiterate, any links or suggested reading you could provide me with, or examples of l systems or similar used in audio would be pretty awesome.

http://www.musanim.com/ <- is old school, but the concepts are real sound.

http://www.csounds.com/ezine/trees/ <- harmonic trees. This guy does it in perl and c.

synesthesia has an obscure relationship, I believe. The symbols underlying sound and vision aesthetics are entwined in our minds. Just like the phonology and graphology of languages have connections in our minds. I'll attach a little synesthesia patch I made trying to tie Scriabin's and Kandinsky's interpretations of their affliction. If this is entirely ot, I apologize.

my idea is to create palettes of keys or modes, and then relate symbols to the palettes, and create chromatic cellular automata that evolove a musical system. Conway's game of life loooks similar to midi piano roll, no?

there's got to be a relationship between language construction and melody construction.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/synesthes.pd

oh you seen this yet?

http://www.ziaspace.com/elaine/chaos/ChaosMelodyTheory.pdf

and ohmygosh-

http://practical-data.wikidot.com/

has got an lsystem implemented already. Nice!

There is also an old java app called Lmuse that outputs midi
based on L-systems:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/8764/lmuse/lmuse.html

No source, AFAIK

AlbertoZ