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Catlin Smith
"...Intuition is knowing without knowing. Maybe this could be a theory of the intuitive. Of instinct. As Debussy says: "It is instinct only - as old as the world - which can save you..."
http://www.vex.net/~rixax/lcs/writings/theory.html
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Chad Sowers
"...Have you ever wanted to write your own piece of music but weren’t exactly sure how to get started?..."
http://www.nashua-plainfield.k12.ia.us/projects/chad/
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Chong (John) Yu
"...The same situation at a different time will produce something similar, but not an exact duplicate..."
http://brainop.media.mit.edu/online/net-music/net-instrument/Thesis.html
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Classical Music Journal
"...The most well known of these works, is a piece where the performer only sits at a piano and does not play..."
http://www.classicalmusicjournal.com.au/john-cage-aleatoric-music/
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Composing Music with Computers - E. R. Miranda
"...The human ear welcomes regularity. Random note durations merely serve to confuse the brain as it looks for rhythmic patterns and fails to find them..."
http://neuromusic.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/camus/tutorial/camus.htm
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Craig Latta
"...This is not the same as random music, but rather describes a technique for developing a musical progress with a random walk-like method..."
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/music/composition-FAQ/
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Creative Principles
"...For example, a change of register produces an excellent contrast. A change in dynamics and tempo is always a reliable procedure..."
http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/mcr/faq3.html
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David Cope
"...composers like Lejaren Hiller, James Tenney, and Iannis Xenakis designed algorithms with the help of computers and complex calculations to create a new and innovative music based on pre-compositional resources..."
http://musicalgorithms.ewu.edu/musichist.html
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Digital Media Laboratory - J. Parker
"...1600s Athanasius Kircher, described in his book, Musurgia Universalis (1600), a mechanical device that composed music. He used number and arithmetic-number relationships to represent scale, rhythm, and tempo relations, called the Arca Musarithmica..."
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~parker/Music/index.htm
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Earsense
"...Motive:a relatively short melodic or rhythmic fragment that recurs frequently enough in a piece of music to be noteworthy: it often influences the entire nature of the piece..."
http://www.earsense.org/Earsense/WTC/Vocabulary/motive.html
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