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Some parentheses around algorithmic composition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1996

WARREN BURT
WARREN BURT
Affiliation:
Melbourne, Australia E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Algorithmic composition and gambling, two activities associated (in the public mind) with the use of chance, are contrasted. Gambling is based on the concepts of winning and losing. Algorithmic composition is not, or should not be. Problems of mappings of information from one medium to another are considered, along with problems of reception for artworks made with these methods. In the end, the quality of attention given to an artwork may be more critical to its reception than any methods used to construct it. Mr. Yasser’s Piano, Tuning the Furniture of Chaos and Pi and the Square Root of Two, three recent algorithmic compositions by the author, are considered in the light of these thoughts.

Type
Research Article
Information
Organised Sound , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , December 1996 , pp. 167 - 172
Copyright
© 1996 Cambridge University Press

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