Towards a Little Chaos

By Scott Petersen | February 28, 2009

I’ve been reading through Leonard Smith’s Chaos: a Very Short Introduction in my spare time (twice a month.) It is truly fascinating reading (depending on your definition of fascinating) and absolutely enlightening to a recovering philistine groping at the previously eschewed topics of mathematics, physics, and philosophy*. I’m going to post some of the algorithms/systems…

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Simple Semi-Stochastic Music Language Examples

By Scott Petersen | December 17, 2008

An article in the June 1979 issue of Computer Music Journal (Vol.3, No.2, Jun., 1979) inspired me to see how easy it would be to impliment “very simple” examples of semi-stochastic music in SuperCollider.  The algorithmic function is the focus of the following examples, which took about 10 minutes to code.  The code uses two…

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