Course "Algorithmic Art &
A.I."
Muziek
"Our minds normally create out of what memory suggests. Thinking
subjectively, we tend to reassemble familiar musical patterns. To
avoid this needs deliberate objective reasoning and the use of thought-processes
into which memory cannot obtrude. This was precisely
the main reason for the flourishing of integral serialism . . .
Total organization was, at that time, the only way to create the
tabula rasa on which completely new edifices could
be constructed."
Reginald Smith Brindle: The New
Music. London: Oxford University Press, 1975, p.23.
"It takes you
three hours and a half to hear and enjoy an opera. Suppose I
can take it in, and enjoy it, in half-an-hour. Why, I can enjoy
seven operas, while you are listening to one!”
“Always supposing you
have an orchestra capable of playing them,” I said.
“And that orchestra has yet to be found!”
The old man smiled. “I
have heard an ‘air played,” he said, “and by no
means a short one – played right through, variations and
all, in three seconds!”
“When? And how?”
I asked eagerly, with a half-notion that I was dreaming again.
“It was done by a little
musical-box,” he quietly replied. “After it had been
wound up, the regulator, or something, broke, and it ran down,
as I said, in about three seconds. But it must have played
all the notes, you know!”
“Did you enjoy
it? I asked, with all the severity of a cross-examining barrister.
“No, I didn’t!”
he candidly confessed. “But then, you know, I hadn’t
been trained to that kind of music!”
• Markov-processen (Hiller
& Isaacson)
• Stijl-Grammatica’s
(Hiller & Isaacson, Cope, Bückmann)
• Xenakis
• Cage & Serialisme
• Minimalism (Incl. Joe
Jones, Alvin Lucier, The Machines)
• Collage (Cage, Sound-scapes,
Agent Radio)
Perception: Lerdahl & Jackendoff
Brian
Eno on generative and interactive music.
algorithmic
music
Adam Alpern: Techniques
for Algorithmic Composition of Music, 1995.
Collective composition: Sound
Injury
Sound
C. Church:
The Wave Scrambler
Torsten Lauschmann:
Diskompaktor, 2001
Leander Seige: Loop.Splitter.
"One can look at seeing; one can not hear hearing."
– Marcel Duchamp, Green Box, 1934 (Motto for a piece
with amplified neural signals from the auditory part of the
brain.)
Table
of Contents "Algorithmic Art & A.I."