The book is based on various illustrative lectures originally presented by the author on the completion of particular compositional projects. Its focus is on the musical structuring of the works."--Back cover.
Internet pioneer Philip Agre observed a discourse deficit in artificial intelligence research and proposed a critical technical practice, a single disciplinary field with “one foot planted in the craft work of design and the other foot ...
Nyquist is freely available software, and over 100 program examples from this book are available in electronic form. Readers will be well equipped to develop their own algorithms for composition.