Re: [microsound] oval armani

["Luke (c)" <luke@xxxxxxxxx>]

on 29/12/01 7:38 AM, Kenric McDowell at kenricm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>> I'm often wondering about the 'random-number' feature in
>> applications: how does one program _randomness? Is there
>> really such a thing?
> This question helped me negotiate chance. I found that random number
> generators are not truly random and that there are ways of sampling
> system noise that are supposed to generate true randomness. In the
> process I realized that this type of chance is really probability and to
> truly embrace chance the art making process must be opened up to the
> randomness of life.

Most random number generators will produce the same sequence if given the
same *seed* (?). I hear this as an argument that they are hence not
"random". Wouldn't this imply that an audio sample of white noise is no
longer white noise as it can be played back twice.

luke