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Duration: 5'45"
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Groove Meat (1994)
for tape (and optional dancers)
Created as the final exam in my algorithmic composition course at UNT. It's derived from a few simple algorithms I wrote in BASIC and Visual BASIC that generated rhythmic patterns. I layered and arranged the output of these in a sequencer, mixed in some functional harmony (also generated algorithmically) and an electric guitar patch, and ended up with a primal, orgiastic, dance. The mixing and sound quality are less-than-wonderful, just so you know. The title was a result of me trying to negate all the heady intellectualizing that goes on when you start saying "algorithmic composition" and thinking of your music as math.
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