Starbog: The Garden Virtuoso and the Turing Machine

Simon Mawhinney

Starbog: The Garden Virtuoso and the Turing Machine

Musicology & Composition

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Abstract

This article will discuss a recent ensemble composition entitled Starbog which was toured and broadcast in Britain in 2006 . The composition of Starbog focused on developing working methods which combined computer-based techniques (using OpenMusic) with more subconscious means of generating musical ideas. The challenge in achieving this was as much aesthetic/philosophical as it was technical and the present article is intending as a ‘sounding’ which focuses on the influence OpenMusic has had on the composer’s music, rather than documenting the nature of the often simple application of algorithms.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The OM Composer's Book vol 2
Editors	Jean Bresson, Carlos Agon, Gérard Assayag
Place of Publication	Paris
Publisher	Ircam Centre Pompidou
Pages	93-105
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	978-2-84426-399-5/2-7521-0051-5
Publication status	Published - 2008

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