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aleatory| The use of random or chance elements in certain art forms. Although Leonardo da Vinci recommended looking at blotches on walls as a means of initiating artistic ideas, aleatory practice has been mainly employed by 20th-century avant-garde artists. |
| In Dada, artist Hans Arp made collages by dropping small pieces of paper onto a larger piece and fixing them where they landed. Similarly, his colleague Tristan Tzara created poetry by drawing sentences, extracted from newspapers, from out of a hat. In music, the major exponent has been John Cage, who pioneered a method of composition in which the elements are assembled by using dice or a computer. |
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aleatory musicAmy, GilbertCage, JohnChihara, PaulDonatoni, FrancoGinastera, Alberto EvaristoHaubenstock-Ramati, RomanKagel, MauricioKelemen, MilkoLutoslawski, WitoldMaderna, BrunoMobilemusicPenderecki, KrzysztofPetric, IvoPousseur, HenriSerocki, KazimierzSmalley, RogerSouster, Tim Andrew James | I'd like to document the aleatory everyday: the oddness of things and bodies as they unfold in time before they are assimilated to the haunted phantasies of the familiar. It never ceases to amaze me that anyone believes all those people have gone to Huddersfield solely to explore the sound world of contemporary aleatory composition. Listening to the recording, which can be found online, Roden produced a cameraless film by scratching ink-coated 16-mm stock, "notating" the music according to an aleatory and intuitive system of spontaneous marks--making himself a kind of human phonautograph, but charging himself with the duty of subjective interpretation rather than mechanical recording. |
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