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

[Phil Thomson]

Can future replies re: this go directly to the original poster and not
to the list please?

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:58 PM, MSC Nelson <mnelson2 at wisc.edu> wrote:
> Samuel:
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> 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.
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> Mark
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> M.S.C. Nelson
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> Associate Professor
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> Design Studies Department
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> University of Wisconsin-Madison
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> 1300 Linden Drive
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> mnelson2 at wisc.edu
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> ________________________________
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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?
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> Hello
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Let me know what you think
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> Samuel
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