athenaCL is an algorithmic composition tool created by Christopher Ariza.

Or, as described by the author more specifically, it is a tool for:

modular poly-paradigm algorithmic music composition in a cross-platform interactive command-line environment.

The manual is built using mdBook you will find the source code inside doc/ directory. You can read it here.

You don't need python. To run this program, just:

$ cargo run --release

cargo test will run not only rust tests, but python tests as well.

Initially this repo was forked to update the code to python3. But then I considered to build a GUI version of athenaCL. Today the code is adapted for GUI needs:

• it's modified to be easily embeddable into binary (using RustPython and freezing);
• some features related to CLI are removed, to make it work better with RustPython;
• while the CLI version might still work, it's not supported, so expect bugs.

If you're interested in the original (CLI) version, check out the pregui tag.