[microsound] any interest in participating in a research project?

[MSC Nelson]

Samuel:

 

I would enjoy participating in your project, as it sounds interesting.  If
you are going to gather data formally, asking questions about experience
levels with algorithmic composition and using that as a variable would be a
way to use responses from a pool of people who have different intensities of
previous use.  It could be interesting to compare responses from the high
and low ends of that spectrum.

 

Mark

 

M.S.C. Nelson

Associate Professor

Design Studies Department

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Room 235

1300 Linden Drive

Madison, WI 53706

608-261-1003

mnelson2 at wisc.edu

 

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From: microsound-bounces at or8.net [mailto:microsound-bounces at or8.net] On
Behalf Of Samuel van ransbeeck
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 6:51 AM
To: microsound at or8.net
Subject: [microsound] any interest in participating in a research project?

 

Hello

 

As a student of composition, I always felt a lack of a method for
algorithmic composition. For counterpoint and harmony, there are treatises
and structured methods but for the 20th century idiom with all its facets,
there is no structured pedagogical means for students to learn about
algorithmic composition. I would like to write a method book to allow
students to learn about algorithmic composition, giving them information and
i the end of each chapter some exercises. It would be like the book of
Straus about posttonal theory, only it will focus on algorithmic methods. 

 

I have spoken to my professor about this but he told me I need a rather
large group of people to test my texts and exercises on. My question now is:
Are there people from the microsound mailing list interested in
participating in such a research. I would write a chapter and exercises,
share them with you and letting you write small exercises and then
collecting and comparing the results of each exercise. This would be like
one year. What is in it for you: eternal glory and I will try to record as
many compositions possible to include in a CD.

 

Let me know what you think

Samuel

 

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