Joseph S. Zitt on Fri, 24 Apr 1998 03:17:42 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Re: <nettime> algorithms for dance |
Quite interesting! Algorithms (whether or not they were called that) have been widely used in music composition since (at least) the 1960s. [Come to think of it, a group of us spent an all-nighter in the Rutgers computer center some 20 years ago working on cracking the algoritmm for Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring".] You might look at the writings at compositions of Phillip Corner, Daniel Goode, Barbara Benary, Steve Reich, Charles Wuorinen, Pauline Oliveros (especially her book "Software for People", available from <http://www.deeplistening.org>) and others. Most of the work that I compose for the ensemble Comma <http://www.artswire.org/comma/> is made up of objects or modules, with materials and structures for performance. We frequently mix and match these in improvisations, creating new works as we go along. (For example, in a performance last Saturday at the Ruthless Grip Arts Project in Washington DC, two of us found ourselves performing "Threads and Facets" while the third improvised in a way not previous named above it.) - ---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------- |||/ Joseph Zitt ===== jzitt@humansystems.com ===== Human Systems \||| ||/ Maryland? = <*> SILENCE: The John Cage Mailing List <*> = ecto \|| |/ http://www.realtime.net/~jzitt ====== Comma: Voices of New Music \| --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@desk.nl and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@desk.nl