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OpenMusic OMDarwin Library

Dear friends,

I am deeply interested in machine learning and genetic compositional strategies.
With great surprise I found the OMDarwin lib for Open Music after reading the third volume of:
THE OM COMPOSER’S BOOK.3

In particular what interested me was the chapter devoted to genetic algorithm:

OM-Darwin: Generative and descriptive
aspects of genetic algorithms
Geof Holbrook

One interesting part is introduced in Figure 2 using a patch in lamba mode as fitness function.

the function seems to be implemented by Sean Ferguson.

Unfortunately the OMDarwin Library has no tutorials or any kind documentation.
Most of the patches presented into the examples are not working and not documented.
I tried not so long ago to make contact with the author but I never got any kind of feedback from his side.
So I am posting over here an open request of help.
Any suggestion or possible orientation strategy will be highly appreciated!

All the best to you

Federico Placidi