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There used to be quite a thing for randomised conpositions in the Baroque era and later, called Musikalisches Würfelspiel. There was also a thing around tape c
by chalst 4y ago
There used to be quite a thing for randomised conpositions in the Baroque era and later, called Musikalisches Würfelspiel.
There was also a thing around tape cut-ups in the 1950s, with William Burroughs being very into this stuff, with David Bowie later picking some of this stuff up. It was more about deconstructing expectations than creating something beautiful, but some of the material is very interesting.
For the first, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_W%C3%BCrfelspiel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musikalisches_W%C3%BCrfelspi...
- dclowd9901 4y agoIncidentally, Bowie would even do this with lyrics. He would write up lyrics or some phrases, then cut up words or combinations of words, and move them around. That’s why (I always thought), he lyrics gave off a common theme with really interesting and novel turns of phrase.
- achairapart 4y agoBowie even came up with a software in the 90s called the Verbasizer to further automate his cut-ups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3IKLMgFaDA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3IKLMgFaDA There is also a web app version at https://verbasizer.com/ https://verbasizer.com/
- chalst 4y agoInteresting. An associate of Burroughs, Ian Sommerville, wrote a program in the 1960s to permute lists of words to help Burroughs for similar reasons.