variant:SONiC<\/em> is, for me, the first of our apps where the audio interactivity feels natural, coherent, and integral to the musical composition. And to me it illustrates how\u2014particularly when working with touchscreen technology\u2014indeterminacy quite naturally slides into interactivity with this kind of music. I\u2019m not sure whether that\u2019s just because iPhone and iPad users expect to be able to touch their screens and make things happen, or whether there\u2019s something inherent in the medium that draws you in this direction. Maybe it\u2019s just that having the tools on hand tempts you to use them; to a composer with a hammer, everything sounds like a nail.<\/p>\nIn the end, though, much as I\u2019m finding interactive music to be intriguing and rewarding, I do still believe that there\u2019s a place for indeterminate digital music that isn\u2019t interactive. I hope to work more in this direction in the future\u2014though to call it merely \u201cpassive\u201d indeterminate music sounds just as insulting as calling a regular old piece of music \u201cdeterminate.\u201d I guess what I\u2019m trying to say is that, despite all these wonderfully interactive technologies we have available to us today, there\u2019s still something to be said for just sitting back and listening to a piece of music. And maybe that\u2019s why I\u2019ve called this series Indeterminacy 2.0 rather than Interactivity 1.0.<\/p>\n
Next week, our season finale: \u201cThe Music of Catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week, I want to talk about some of the actual work I\u2019ve done with indeterminate digital music, with a focus on both the technologies involved and the compositional methods that have proven useful to me in approaching this sort of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":853,"featured_media":434953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1523,1280,1524,1531,133,1525],"nmb_categories":[6],"how_to_category":[],"nmb_tags":[],"internal_taxonomy":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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