Re: [microsound] Re: Scores

[Tad Turner <tad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/21/02 at 8:42 AM, Glenn Bach <gbach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > sifting sound particles through a sieve.
> >
> > that's Xenaxis.  Stockhausen wouldn't need to shift
> > particles being as he is pure energy and god and all
> > of that.
> 
> And now I'm not sure it was Xenakis either.  Maybe Kim might remember who talked about the sieve?  
> I'm waiting for Curtis Roads' _Microsound_ to hit my
> mailbox to see if I can find it there.

"Iannis Xenakis propsed a related approach. This involves the application of sieve theory to the
amplitude and time dimensions of a sound synthesis process."

Roads, _Microsound_, p. 30 (cites the 1992 revision of _Formalized Music_)