From the Quaternions Sent Mon, Oct 12th 1998, 18:53
From the Quaternions Sent Mon, Oct 12th 1998, 18:53
>From NY Press this week
Excerpts...
Aphex Twin is teaching his computers to compose music. "It's really experimental, so I don't reckon it'd sell anything," he says of the music that's been the focus of his work life for the last two years...
You know "fractals"? These are just graphs of certain mathematical functions... Whe people got around to putting their computers to work on the digital translations of great and not-so-great music, they found the same thing when they graphed those fucntions: patterns. As Aphex twin tells it, those patterns can form the basis of "rules" that govern the output of a computer programmed to slect notes at random...
He's now writing programs designed to let him teach the computer his rules or composing music, thenflip the script by jumbling, omitting, or adding elements f chance to some or all of these rules...
Aphex Twin says that some of the tracks he made without his sculpting tools--that is, music made by just starting a program and letting ity run its course-- are "the ones that sound most cold, but they're also fucking lush"... "Computers are ot considered expressive, but it's quite raw when you'reprogramming and you're not thinking about the emortion you put into it... It's just expression through math"
Sam