>X-POP3-Rcpt: sdela@bom
>Return-Path: <jzitt@humansystems.com>
>X-Authentication-Warning: zoom.bga.com: jzitt owned process doing -bs
>Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:57:19 -0500 (CDT)
>From: "Joseph S. Zitt" <jzitt@humansystems.com>
>X-Sender: jzitt@zoom.bga.com
>To: Scott deLahunta <sdela@ahk.nl>
>cc: nettime <nettime@basis.Desk.nl>, Joseph Zitt <jzitt@humansystems.com>
>Subject: Re: <nettime> algorithms for dance
>
>Quite interesting! Algorithms (whether or not they were called that) have
>been widely used in music composition since (at least) the 1960s. [Come to
>think of it, a group of us spent an all-nighter in the Rutgers computer
>center some 20 years ago working on cracking the algoritmm for Bach's
>"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring".]
>
>You might look at the writings at compositions of Phillip Corner, Daniel
>Goode, Barbara Benary, Steve Reich, Charles Wuorinen, Pauline Oliveros
>(especially her book "Software for People", available from
><http://www.deeplistening.org>) and others.
>
>Most of the work that I compose for the ensemble Comma
><http://www.artswire.org/comma/> is made up of objects or modules, with
>materials and structures for performance. We frequently mix and match
>these in improvisations, creating new works as we go along. (For example,
>in a performance last Saturday at the Ruthless Grip Arts Project in
>Washington DC, two of us found ourselves performing "Threads and Facets"
>while the third improvised in a way not previous named above it.)
>
>- ---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1----------
>|||/ Joseph Zitt ===== jzitt@humansystems.com ===== Human Systems \|||
>||/ Maryland? = <*> SILENCE: The John Cage Mailing List <*> = ecto \||
>|/ http://www.realtime.net/~jzitt ====== Comma: Voices of New Music \|
>
-----------------------------------------|
Scott deLahunta and Susan Rethorst
Writing Research Associates, NL
Sarphatipark 26-3, 1072 PB Amsterdam, NL
tel: +31 (0)20 662 1736
fax: +31 (0)20 470 1558
email: sdela@ahk.nl
http://huizen.dds.nl/~sdela/wra (WRITING RESEARCH ASSOCIATES)
http://www.art.net/~dtz (DANCE AND TECHNOLOGY ZONE )