implicit music, or the idea that music naturally exudes from everything. composition is not the act of making music, but of starting with music and working backwards. #halfbakedideas

gf that is actually just function composition disguised as your romantic partner

James Tenney’s Meta Hodos and Meta Meta Hodos are an attempt to derive music theory from first principles: [[https://monoskop.org/images/1/13/Tenney_James_Meta-Hodos_and_Meta_Meta-Hodos.pdf]] #links #composition #musictheory

LC is a new music programming language that is prototype-based, strongly timed, and designed with microsound synthesis in mind: [[https://www.hnishino.com/2019/05/09/lc-a-new-computer-music-programming-language-with-three-core-features/]] #links #composition

7seconds is a composition project where composers try to compose something no longer than 7 seconds in length. [[http://www.microsound.org/projects/project.php?name=Seven%20Seconds]] #links #composition

Helmut Lachenmann has an interesting notation system for stringed instruments: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZt3UfNDNV0]] #links #composition #notation