Writings on Computer Music
Here can be found some of my formal writings on computer music (as opposed to actual compositions).
Music Graphs for Algorithmic Composition and Synthesis with an Extensible Implementation in Java from the 1988 International Computer Music Conference. The system described in this paper has been ported from Java to C++, and now lives on in the form of the CsoundAC Python extension module in Csound. I compose most of my music using CsoundAC, although I am always evaluating alternatives.
Score Generation in Musical Orbifolds from the 2006 International Computer Music Conference. This paper applies some recent work in mathematical music theory by Dmitri Tymoczko to algorithmic score generation using Lindenmayer systems.
Score Generating Lindenmayer Systems in the Generalized Contextual Group also uses Lindenmayer systems, but this time specialized to apply group operations from the Generalized Contextual Group of Fiore and Satyendra. The following clip presents a piece composed using this system.
mkg-2009-01-17-b.mp3
Five Fixed Points
This is a piece-and-paper, submitted to the 2010 International Computer Music Conference (it was not accepted). The piece is a suite of soundfiles, each composed by interpreting the attractor of an iterated function systems (IFS) as a grid of sound grains. Each IFS was evolved visually using Apophysis. The paper about this piece is here.