So I did some research about the concept, I admired again Kandinsky's paintings, discovered the wonderful Norman McLaren's animations, and experimented with IANNIX, a modern software version of UPIC [a computer composition tool] of [French composer] Iannis Xanakis".
According to his bio, Dan Deacon, an electronic music composer, studied electro-acoustic and computer composition, while in college.
The first point to understand about computer composition is that, like electronic music, it is not a style but a technique.
Otherwise, interest in computer composition gradually has continued to grow.
Its offerings parallel those of Amadeus Chappaqua, with private instrumental lessons, classes in music theory and computer composition and jazz, rock and classical ensembles.
Two very different compositions, ST/10-1,080262 (1962), by Yannis Xenakis, and HPSCHD (1968), by John Cage and Hiller, are illustrative of two later approaches to computer composition.
Wednesday's program features works by Mozart, Stacy Garrop and Brahms, as well as pieces written by community composers using the computer composition program Hyperscore.
But the thing that's upsetting about computer composition is that David Cope was able to take the magic of music and boil it down to it's basic mathematical components.
"I've never had a cannon out my window," said Birgit Rathsmann, who is making a series of abstract computer compositions incorporating quotations from the likes of Wittgenstein and Johnny Cash that will be installed on the ferry's upper deck this summer.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY TAPLIN AUDITORIUM "Music 326," original student electronic and computer compositions.
But not before launching a remarkable ad campaign that showed male fashion models lying on their sides in artsy still life and computer compositions.
