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3 unusual facts about Algorithmic composition


Karlheinz Essl, Jr.

Between 1995–2006 he taught Algorithmic composition at the Studio for Advanced Music & Media Technology at the Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance in Linz, Austria.

Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace – The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

The event's music was generated by three CD players, and like his previous album of the same year, Extracts from Music for White Cube, it used the generative capabilities of Koan Pro by layering more than two stereo pairs of sound sources, via the CD players.

Tummyrub

In 1990 Tummyrub was one of the first to produce and compose music with Fractal geometry software, known as Fractal Music which are Algorithmic compositions.


Ballblazer

Ballblazers theme music, called "Song of the Grid" and heard between matches, was algorithmically generated, a technique designed by Lucasfilm Games team leader Peter Langston and called "riffology".


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Eres Holz

2003-2011 he has studied composition with Hanspeter Kyburz and electronic music with Wolfgang Heiniger at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin, where he teaches since 2008 Algorithmic Composition with OpenMusic and Common Music.