Organized Cacophony
Made by Eric Terui, Rikky Roy Koganti, Raisa Chowdhury and Ariel Tian
Made by Eric Terui, Rikky Roy Koganti, Raisa Chowdhury and Ariel Tian
For this project, our group performed three compositions, each of which was made up of four different songs arranged in creative ways. We agreed that we wanted each of our compositions to be unique by playing with varying levels of chance, indeterminacy, and entropy. We were able to organize these factors within each composition through use of timers and random number generators. We hope your enjoy our performance.
Created: September 19th, 2014
For this project, our group performed three compositions, each of which was made up of four different songs arranged in creative ways. We agreed that we wanted each of our compositions to be unique by playing with varying levels of chance, indeterminacy, and entropy. We were able to organize these factors within each composition through use of timers and random number generators. We hope your enjoy our performance.
I very much like how you handle increased indeterminacy in the first example, increased chance in the second example and increased entropy in the third example. I think sometimes, like in your explanation of example 1, you mix up a bit indeterminacy and entropy. Just because something is unpredictable it does not necessarily mean that it also creates a feeling of disorganized material.
BTW, did you use a mic for the recordings. Recordings not as good as could be.
Good work overall.
I'm guessing you meant decreased entropy in the third example? And you do have a point about the unpredictability. There is always the possibility it flows well.
we ended up simply using an iphone app to record the sounds from each laptop, by placing it in the center. We didn't want to use a laptop as we had though it might also pick up on the clicking from that laptop more heavily.
We used the Voice Memos app on the iPhone for the recordings. Our TAs said that doing the recordings with that app should be fine.
I think its really interesting that you let Pandora pick random songs for you, which increased the level of chance very much higher than any group that picked songs from those that they know. However, did you consider the chance of for increased entropy that way due due the internet not working? That is an interesting comparison to those that chose songs that were already on their computers and didn't have the possibility of the song not working at all.
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