Software as Sculpture: Creating Music from the Ground up

Abstract

The author discusses two electronic music compositions that typify his approach to composing with small computer-music systems. The author’s compositional technique is characterized by bottom-up software design and close attention to emerging details of the computer medium. These methods result in a sculptural process of composition that is unique in the field of computer music. Some of the details of this process are outlined and distinctive features of the music are discussed.