Re: [microsound] just a tiny question

[Lance Grabmiller <praemedia@xxxxxxxxx>]

generative music: I, not being a programmer (and simultaneously being on PC), don't work too much with generative music, but have applied "chance" to compositions through "dice games." Very Cage, and DIY generative music sort of. Assigning numbers to various parameters and/or sounds. Similar to Cage's I ching compositions. I would like to know more about the specific details of how Cage used the i-ching, and see some examples of the "charts" he spoke of when composing in this fashion, but can't find much detail.

Being less of a performer than a composer, my interest in applying modern composers ideas into computer music has come from musique concrete (henri, schaeffer, ferrari, etc., etc.). I think they are EXTREMELY applicable to computer music.

lance

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 Tone0010@xxxxxxx wrote: sorry to harp on an old topic, but I was interested in lance's question of 
what microsound thinks of cage, especially in the generative music field, 
which seems to come from Cage's theories, yet seems almost violently against 
the concept of creative ownership. I've heard that Cage disliked 
improvisation.... maybe he wasn't so against ownership, just a loose 
application. All in all, I think others know much more about the whole thing 
than I do.



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