[eu-gene] Psst...Wanna Buy an Algorithm? (Working Title)

[Lauri Gröhn]

At 01:15 16.10.2005, you wrote:
>A composition can't be "algorithmic" - in the "generative" sense - if
>it produces the EXACT same music with each "performance." It's an
>illogical concept.

Not a all. Generative and ramdom are just two different dimensions.
If the algorithm uses some seeds (text, numbers, pictures...) it
can still be deterministic.

>And if the piece were electronic/computer generated
>it would be even more antithetical to the idea of "generative" music,
>since even the element of human imperfection involved in a performance
>is absent from the equation.

Human performance is in a way "partly generating" the piece. For that
reason much a kind of pseudoscience is done in the name of musicology
when only the score is used for the "analysis". Using only the score is
not analysing the music but the score. I would prefere "empirical 
music research"
which on the other hand should not be only statistical analysis but
performance and score analysis combined.

LG
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