Systems music
Systems music is music with sound continua which evolve gradually, often over very long periods of time.
A number of English experimental composers have also developed systems based music particularly Michael Parsons, Howard Skempton, John White, and Michael Nyman.[2]
In the realm of computer music, "systems music" refers to fractal-based, computer-assisted composition, and in particular iterated function systems music, in which a function "is applied repeatedly, each time taking as argument its value at the previous application",[3]
References
- ^ Sutherland 1994, 172.
- ^ Sutherland 1994, 183.
- ^ Gogins 1991, 40.
Sources
- Gogins, Michael (1991). "Iterated-Functions Systems Music". Computer Music Journal 15, no. 1 (Spring): 40–48.
- Sutherland, Roger (1994). New Perspectives in Music. London: Sun Tavern Fields. ISBN 0-9517012-6-6.
Further reading
- Anderson, Virginia (2013a). "Systems and Other Minimalism in Britain". In The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music, edited by Keith Potter, ISBN 978-1-4094-3549-5.
- Anderson, Virginia (2013b). "Whatever Remains, However Improbable". In Experimental Systems: Future Knowledge in Artistic Research, edited by Michael Schwab, 55–67. Leuven: Leuven University Press. ISBN 9789058679734.
- Dennis, Brian (1974). "Repetitive and Systemic Music". The Musical Times 115, no. 1582 (December), pp. 1036–1038.