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

[Renato Fabbri]

2009/11/16 Phil Thomson <hellomynameisphil+mcrsnd at gmail.com>:
> Can future replies re: this go directly to the original poster and not
> to the list please?

why so? as we both have gmails, it groups into one thread anyway.

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> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>> Room 235
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>> 1300 Linden Drive
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>> Madison, WI 53706
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>> 608-261-1003
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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?
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
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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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Let me know what you think
>>
>> Samuel
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