This is a short summary of the different chapters in the book, to help you choose a paper for your course project.
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Lemouton’s “Generating melodic,harmonic, ...". Shows simple patches for K..., an opera by Manoury. Examples of melody, chord and rhythm“reservoirs”
L´evy “When the computer enables freedom...." computes prime spectra, iterated harmonic transposition, Tanner vectorial representation. Epistemological and aesthetic discussion.
Haddad's “Timesculpt in OpenMusic”. Time block algebra based on tree structures. Rotations, homotheties/scalings, inversions, filtering etc applied to time blocks.
Kretz - simulation of the movement of a ball in a closed room using Max. Import into OM.
Constrained programming. Gesture as source of musical structure.
Amoric "Mersenn numbers..." number theory. Use extracts from 18th century pieces and use constraints.
Malt "Fractals..", IFS system + theory. Fractals for constructing a “self-similar” form.
Six short pieces based on evolution of instrument register.
Nez - pitch and rhythm control techniques, morphing of harmonic series, contour and interpolation of chords, time curves. Using harmony and rhythm to filter sounds.
Nouno and Battier - “Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de loin”. Resonant model analysis of voice and instruments. Electronic sounds based on harmonic structures.
Sandred, "Kalejdoskop ...", CSP for rhythm. Attacks, duration relation between voices. Describes musical relevance of these rules.
Hernandez "..Lanza’s Aschenblume.." a language that generates rhythmic motifs, harmonic field, melodic envelopes. Uses uses Mikael Laurson’s Pmc Engine library.
Sprotte ".. Time Flow, Set-Theory and Constraints”, rhythmic and harmonic musical structures. set of musical objects that are organized according to rules and constraints
Bloch "Vuza canons ..", uses “regular complementary rhythmic canons of maximal category”. Modulation between canons, harmonic constraints.
Nauert ".. Caprices", top-down approach. Uses his OMTimepack library for generating durations according to specific statistical profiles.
Herv´e and Voisin ".. on Encore", down-top approach. Piece fro 18 musicians and electronics. Gesture prototypes put in Maquette.
Parra’s "Strette", link between vocals and poetic features in Paul Celan’s poem. Colour, rhythm and pitch in painting by C´ezanne -
Pena "Klangspiegel", manipulation of data generated by sound analysis. synthesis of sound and instrumental writing on the macro level.
Livorsi ".. Modalys”,control sound synthesis parameters, envelopes, resonance duration. Control and dynamic and random variations.
Thomazi-Freitas "...Dream About Dreams", use of om-tristan library. Using spectral analysis to create rhythmic and harmonic figures in composition.
