Aleatoric Algorithms

Your observations are right on, bravo! You are indeed introducing more structure at various levels and influencing the aleatoric nature of the form especially in terms of reducing indeterminacy and entropy. I also very much like the switch between human and code performance. Thanks for trying it. Interesting comment on something jarring having more entropy (does it?) and things of equal volume having less entropy. Good work.

I think its really cool that you wrote a version of the code that runs and creates a mix for all four songs, even more so that its more apparent that the break-offs of sound are much more uniform than it is when you do it by hand. However, I'm a little bit confused by your description of your methodology of your third composition. At the beginning you said that you would be using the same set of songs for all 3 compositions, but at the third you said you changed them and didn't really specify which songs you used, except for "2 from the first, 2 from the second". I am confused because all four were the same from your first and second. Can you elaborate on your choices a little bit more?

I like that you guys used randomness outside of the assignment in order to make decisions! I also think that using code to automate the synchronicity was a smart move - though as you point out, the synchronized silences are more distinctive than the other periods of silence. The decision to split the project into human chance vs computer chance organizes your project well. This leads me to question the way your third piece fits in. Maybe if in the first one you had removed random.org entirely and had the element of chance be human, then the distinctions (and thus the decision to blend them) would be even more prominent. This is, however, a minor nitpick, and I quite enjoy the way you guys addressed the assignment!