Music Derived from Other Sources

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Clarence Barlow
University of California, Santa Barbara
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8461-5827

Abstract

One imagines composed music as originating in the mind of an author. Indeed, I have for the last six decades been composing music in this fashion. However, for the last five decades I have also been repeatedly attracted to various methods of deriving music from sources both inside and outside of music, viz. linguistic, acoustic, visual and mathematical as well as other works of music. For most of these operations I have resorted to strict algorithmic means and the use of computer programming. For instance the linguistic: I have used text orthography, spectral analyses of human speech, digital recordings of the human voice, and synthetic semantic structures. This paper is the most comprehensive text on my work in this field.

Keywords: Linguistics, Recordings, Sonification, Harmony, Metre

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