[microsound] musical structure

[Batuhan Bozkurt]

I'm not a very experienced live coder myself, but the on-stage live  
coding has its own structural aesthetics especially if one wants to  
project his/her screen to some place for the (possibly non-programmer)  
audience to intellectually participate/consciously witness to the  
creation of the musical performance. Things usually start from very  
simple timbres and structural events to gradually more complex (so  
there is an increase in entropy in the musical/temporal events and the  
timbral quality) and since this is still quite a new field, the  
performances I've seen tend to follow the same pattern and not many  
groundbreaking differences in structure happen in between different  
performances and/or performers.

Towards the end of the piece/performance, usually either the entropy  
decreases in the same manner or some sort of fading out trickery is  
involved (endings feel usually abrubt). I think this monotony in  
structure for live coding events is there because there aren't many  
virtuosic attempts on creating a really appealing live coding  
performance (which is also a valid attitude I think, but then some  
feel they'll be blamed less because they are trying something really  
extreme, an attitude I won't support), and the tools and the concept  
is quite new to performers and the audience. Maybe things will get  
more interesting at least varied when the computing culture rises  
among artists and listeners.

I am not much into beat oriented stuff, but I find this live coding  
performance interesting and inspiring nonetheless (even though for  
some part it follows the same route I've explained earlier  
structurally, it also tries to alter the old habits in a nice way): http://yaxu.org/haskell-hack/

Best,
Batuhan Bozkurt
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On Sep 15, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Kim Cascone wrote:

> I'm gathering some info for a lecture I'm giving about structure in  
> laptop music (read: electro-acoustic, noise, microsound, etc).
>
> What sorts of structure do people use in creating their work?
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