Show threadC. S. MillsApr 4, 2025

To accompany the music, a fresh installment of my monthly letter as well — in which we delve into the process of making the album. Aleatory, imaginal lines, wandering, play.

https://cscottmills.com/polylith/073/

#towardThePolylith #aleatoricMusic #ambientMusic #generativeMusic #poetry

Polylith 073: Slow transits

The tail of winter hasn't slipped out of sight just yet here on the peninsula, but signs of spring flourish everywhere beside it.

Christopher Scott Mills
Fonts In UseJul 18, 2024

Polina Ovchinnikova’s ALEA is a book about aleatoric music, made as a student project at HSE Art and Design School. The fonts she used are Rene by Fedor Abroskin and Bitum by Gayaneh Bagdasaryan & Vyacheslav Kirilenko. More: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/60346/alea-by-polina-ovchinnikova

#AleatoricMusic #FontsInUse #fonts #typefaces #typography

ALEA by Polina Ovchinnikova

ALEA was made by Polina Ovchinnikova as a student project at HSE Art and Design School. The project addresses the so-called aleatoric music (also aleatory music), a technique used by some composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. In aleatory pieces, some elements of the musical s

Fonts in Use
pHinnWebOct 29, 2023

What did John Cage really teach in Viitasaari? By Juhani Nuorvala.

#JohnCage #ChanceOperations #AleatoricMusic #JuhaniNuorvala #TimeOfMusic #TimeOfMusicFestival #Viitasaari #Finland #1980s

https://fmq.fi/articles/what-did-john-cage-really-teach-in-viitasaari

What did John Cage really teach in Viitasaari?

Summer 2023 marked 40 years since John Cage visited the Time of Music festival in Viitasaari. There are clichéd narratives still circulating about the snapping

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La cervelle en étéJan 11, 2023
The crane in this image also functions as an aleatoric musical instrument in high winds. However, the sound of wind hitting the microphone has spoiled my attempts to make a recording of it. #AleatoricMusic
bornachJan 10, 2023

Switched to #TidalCycles for the #generativeMusic prompt

Tried to use every randomization feature in this one piece layered on each other:

Random notes for base drone and piano melody
Muting or swapping percussive instruments randomly
Random speed changes and muting of arpeggiated synth
Random cutoff filter frequency

Amazed it didn't sound like pure chaos

Is this now a #jamuary crossover?

#genuary10 #genuary #genuary2023 #TidalCycles #aleatoricMusic

Keram 🥽 🎸Jan 7, 2023

Ill be live on Twitch today Sat Jan 07 - 3pm PT/6pm ET working in #ReaperFM, maybe tooling around with some #ChatGPT, talking about #poltergeists and doing some live #mixing and #aleatoricmusic.

https://www.twitch.tv/keramsongs

KeramSongs - Twitch

Live ambient performance for sleep

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