Cage Contra Stravinsky, or Delineating the Aleatory Aesthetic

Hoogerwerf, Frank W.

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“…Indeterminacy and chance are utilized in the process of exploring Max as a digital platform for noise music performance because indeterminacy and chances would provide different outcomes from each performance (Neal, 2008). Cage noted that indeterminacy is used because it could relate to the uncontrollable chances humans endure in their everyday lives (Hoogerwerf, 1976). Xenakis employed chance with a more scientific approach to his composition due to the usage of mathematical procedure to control and shape the sound masses in his composition (Paparrigopoulos, 2005).…”

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Max as a Digital Platform for Noise Music Performance

Mokhtar,

Chan

2023

Harmonia

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This article explores Max as a digital platform for performing noise music through a practice-led research method. The practice-led research method was used to explore the possibilities of building Max patches, while content analysis method was used to analyse the outcome of the patches. Several Max patches were created to explore the potential of Max as an alternative approach for performing noise music. Findings show that Max can replicate the audio processing methods used in conventional performance. Due to Max capabilities, some of these methods could be automated and arranged prior to the performance. In addition, Max patches featured changing sound, random pitches, mixture of pre-recorded audio source and live instrument, and drone sound combined with automatic constant real-time audio self-processing and automatic audio panning, a feature that seldom appears in the local noise music scene. In conclusion, this research argues that Max has much potential for creating a variety of digital sounds that are harsh and dissonant to the ears, therefore contributing to the musical diversity in noise music performance. These sounds are the results of the features of audio self-processing, random pitches, automatic audio panning object and self-changing pitched drone audio signals relying on random MIDI values that appeared in Max.

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Section: Concepts Of Performancementioning

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Max as a Digital Platform for Noise Music Performance

Mokhtar,

Chan

2023

Harmonia

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“…In this process of composition, the composer can use several random methods, such as playing dice, coins, making use of mathematical laws of chance, or even transcribing abstract drawings. In performance, the composer can leave certain elements to the artist's discretion, indicating only the approximate tone, and not the precise one, the duration, the intensity, the timbre, and so on; or he may allow the great architecture of the work to be carried out by the artist, granting him freedom of choice in the order in which various sections of the work are executed Hoogerwerf (1976).…”

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Composing aleatoric music through interaction

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Urban public art is an art exhibition held in public places, contextualized with their surroundings and its audience. Technology is a significant trend in public art due to its connection possibilities with human life, fostering different kinds of interaction. In this way, this work presents an installation proposal consisting of an environment for creating collaborative random music from interaction with mobile devices in public spaces. Everyone participating in the installation is a composer and interaction is a chance agent, although it follows John Cage's composition methods. In order to probe technology, we carried out two pilot studies, followed by a workshop for the installation itself. Those two pilot studies led us to a new version that was put into practice during the workshop. During the workshop, participants' interaction generated fourteen compositions, and the sounds resulting from the collaborative composition were made available to the public through a website.

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Cage Contra Stravinsky, or Delineating the Aleatory Aesthetic

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Max as a Digital Platform for Noise Music Performance

Max as a Digital Platform for Noise Music Performance

Composing aleatoric music through interaction

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