RE: [microsound] my top ten...

[Philip Sherburne <psherburne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>"Oulipo Compendium" - ed. Harry Mathews and Alastair Brotchie 

Nice one. I must say, I'm continually surprised that Oulipo doesn't seem to
have had more impact in contemporary experimental music -- the closest sort
of constraint-based methods I can see are in Matthew Herbert's Personal
Contract for the Composition of Music [PCCOM], which is much like the Dogme
95 manifesto. But I'd think, given the near-infinite possibilities of
computer-based music, that more composers would be interested in adopting
Oulipo-like constraints and conceits as a means of shaping their work...  Am
I just missing out on the obvious practicioners?

Cheers
Philip