"Composers compose stuff in whatever way suits their interest and 
philosophies; and listeners listen to it in whatever way suits theirs. 
Which may of course mean not listening to it at all"--

Such is the nature of art (music, painting, drawing, writing, etc).
We use the tools and methods we choose,... whatever works, whatever
does the job, with the tools at hand.

Always enjoy these emails with Richard and Michael, et al. Always
gets me going. Thanks.

-PBS


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--- richarddobson@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:

From: Richard Dobson 
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [OT-maybe] non-algorithmic music
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:19:11 +0000

On 31/01/2010 21:54, Michael Gogins wrote:
> This is getting interesting to me. Comments interspersed.
>
>
>> Sure, but the space to be scanned for that purpose is, as I said, the
>> library of Babel. It only exist as a form of the mathematical infinity, like
>> the set of all integers. You cannot make music by picking some (probably
>> large) integer for sonification. I just don't see how to make any practical
>> sense of such an idea.
>
> Again this is not to be prejudged... one finds various ways,
> mathematical, visual, sonic, of scanning this space.
>

I would go further (despite really not wanting to get drawn into this 
sort of discussion!) and say that it will always be a futile act to make 
any statement of the form "You cannot make music by....". I see this as 
a thinly disguised moral imperative that really wants to say "You should 
not make music...". You may as well say "You cannot make music by 
banging flowerpots together". History shows us that when never a 
composer is presented with such an imposed "rule", they find a way to 
disobey it. The most any individual can say is "you cannot make music I 
am likely to want to listen to by....".

Composers compose stuff in whatever way suits their interest and 
philosophies; and listeners listen to it in whatever way suits theirs. 
Which may of course mean not listening to it at all. Yet others try to 
"appraise" it in whatever way suits them. No moral imperative - it is 
just what people do. Sometime they tell you why, and sometimes they tell 
you how (in the 60's especially!), but are not under any imperative to 
do either.

You have probably already heard music made by picking some large integer 
for sonification. They just didn't tell you. I can imagine the Csounders 
queueing up already.


Richard Dobson
(currently listening to "Symphonies of the Planets" No 3 by NASA).



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