Algorithmic Composition: Computational Thinking In Music

Algorithmic composition

Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set into operation, could create music with little or no intervention on my part. That is to say, I tend towards the roles of planner and programmer, and then become an audience to the results.

Brian Eno (quoted)

Saved 26 February 2013 / cacm.acm.org ↗

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