Hi,
Tonight I've been trying to write something, anything, for this read_me
paper. Here's what I came up with, a kind of introduction. Some of the
ideas in it might be useful anyway. I also fiddled with the wiki, and
typed some possible section titles in. Anyway, it's gotten late, so
here's the text without further ado:
There are many similarities between software and music. For example,
both exist as a set of instructions to be interpreted and executed to
produce a temporal form. I play this music I've scored, I run this
software I've hacked together; I breathe life into my work.
The forms of software and music have been intertwined, not only by
musicians exploring their ideas as software processes but also by
programmers exploring their ideas as music processes. Software
environments such as CSound, MAX/MSP and SuperCollider are new
playgrounds in which we may all explore the processes of music;
describing and manipulating processes that make the music, rather than
the music itself.
Terms such as "generative music" and "process music" have been
invented and appropriated to describe this new approach to
composition. But the focus of this text is not to explore this
approach, but to explore how such music should be performed.
...
Goodnight!
alex
Received on Thu May 13 2004 - 00:15:17 BST