When it stops, does it end?

Art Hunkins

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From: "Stéphane Rollandin" 
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> You can write an algorithm that produces
> an infinitely long piece of music.  You can implement it
> using Csound and your programming language of choice.  You
> can fast-forward it to hear what it would sound like at some
> point in the future. Whether or not anybody listens to the
> whole thing, the length of that piece is unbounded.  It's
> the same as infinite digits of pi.
>
> As it happens, I think this is an interesting avenue to
> explore for algorithmic music.  It's something you couldn't
> do otherwise.  But then ideas are cheap -- I don't have an
> implementation.


I wrote a piece of ambient music, called Rivière (river) which has no
end. I just cut enough of it to fill a CD. You can get it here:
http://www.zogotounga.net/TGG/zik/riv/02-Riviere.ogg

Stef




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That sounds like one of those fear-of-death questions that has no 
intelligible answer!

Richard Dobson

Art Hunkins wrote:
> When it stops, does it end?
> 
> Art Hunkins
> 
..
> 
> I wrote a piece of ambient music, called Rivière (river) which has no
> end. I just cut enough of it to fill a CD. You can get it here:
> http://www.zogotounga.net/TGG/zik/riv/02-Riviere.ogg
> 



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> When it stops, does it end?

I should really just answer: please give it a listen and decide by 
yourself...

Now a program note would go like this: it is a piece made to give the 
listener the same kind of auditory experience you have when sitting by a 
small mountain river, only with different sounds. So it starts when you 
start listening and it ends when you stop listening. And while 
listening, your attention drift from one type of sound pattern to 
another, so it is actually the way you listen to the piece that 
construct its melody. The overall thing is both completely static and 
very much alive. It liberates the listener from any effort of attention, 
which is I believe what ambient music is all about (ask Eno).

Now, please give it a listen and decide by yourself :)

Stef




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