Aleatoric Process Assignment

Overall good handling of the terms and testing them through the algorithmic process. Some interesting takes on what the algorithm suggests and what you did but we can discuss further in class. Good work.

I would never have thought of letting a new song play in shuffle when it ended instead of repeating the same song, as my group did. Do you think that doing that increased total entropy, because the song was random, or kept it about the same, because each person's music library reflects personal choices which are fairly consistent and have a low level of chance overall?

I like that, for your analysis of composition one, you took into account that other groups being in the background increased the overall entropy of the project. Our group tried to pretend that the background noise didn't exist, but other people existing in the space and adding in their own noises-- which technically became part of the music-- actually it part of the charm of the piece. Presumably John Cage believed something along the same lines when he contrived the concept for the piece 4'33"

I really like the idea of selecting songs based on shuffling your music libraries! Listening to the result does seem to indicate that this increased entropy in the composition.