In a message dated 9/4/00 10:07:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
edhall@screech.weirdnoise.com writes:
<< I find it incredible, too -- in the original sense of that word: "not
credible." What's your source on this? >>
Grooves Magazine issue 3 page 40 in the bottom left corner of the page. Check
their web site at
http://www/raom/prg/~audio/grooves/ for info on their mag..
which has pretty good distribution for an indy mag.
"The smokey plastic cover to Autechre's EP7 obscures the fossilized remains
of various Lsystems, or fractals, each describing a set of rules that govern
the irate 'growth' of a string of letters, or plant cells or whatever is
being melded over a series of generations. Errors are thrown in every few
turns so as to tune the work's obvious synthetic appearance, to make its
overall growth appear more natural... yada yada yadda... blah blah blah...."
And yes, it is possible to create NON RANDOM sound with programming fractals.
Look at a fucking fractal, does it appear random to you, look at a god damn
fern, does that look random? Nature has a certain element of (for lack of a
better word) randomness. You can harness it (in such case as the EVOLUTION
OF HUMANS) and create a wonderful object of nature.
In programming, you would not need to use a random melody, you could just use
a matrix of the notes you wish to be the main melody, and then a command to
trigger that note at a certain time in the algorithim.
You should check more into things... you may find that you don't actually
know everything. : )
Just wanted to clear things up.
Nick
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