A displaced Californian composer writes about music made for the long while & the world around that music. ~ The avant-garde is flexibility of mind. — John Cage ~ ...composition is only a very small thing, taken as a part of music as a whole, and it really shouldn't be separated from music making in general. — Douglas Leedy ~ My God, what has sound got to do with music! — Charles Ives
Friday, January 22, 2010
Slimy tunes
Here's another free idea for composers adapted from natural science: it turns out that slime molds can discover efficient paths through complex networks, subway systems, for example (read here, in German). How about using slime mold paths to design melodies? Melodies have at least two dimensions of movement (in absolute pitch and in pitch relative to harmonic references), so there is some similarity to networks like subways. How important an efficient path may be, however, may vary with your aesthetic purposes.
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If you have access to these journals, there is a new paper out on oil droplets navigating their way through mazes.
>http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2010/113/4
>http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja9076793
And more on slime molds, they can also make efficient nets between model cities in Japan
>http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2010/121/1
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