New Version of LEXIKON-SONATE for Mac Available
By Karlheinz Essl
LEXIKON-SONATE (1992-96) - an infinite and interactive realtime composition environment - is now available as a standalone program.
It only requires an Apple Macintosh computer; an external MIDI-equipment is not necessary, but can optionally be added. Thanks to QuickTime the musical output is directly played throuh the loudspeaker of the computer.
System Requirements...
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* Apple Macintosh (8 MB RAM min.), System 7.x
* QuickTime 2.x
* optional: MIDI-interface with a MIDI-instrument (piano sound)
Downloading...
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http://www.neoism.org/neoism/squares/lexicon.html
About...
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LEXIKON-SONATE is a interactive piece for MIDI-controlled player piano which is composed and performed by computer software in real time. The underlying program was written by Essl in MAX (Zicarelli and Puckette, 1990-1995 Opcode Systems Inc./ IRCAM), an interactive graphical programming environment for multimedia, music, and MIDI, running on a Macintosh computer. It draws from a large library of musical functions, compositional techniques, and algorithmic strategies which Essl has developed over the past few years: the "Real Time Composition Library" for MAX.
LEXIKON-SONATE consists of 24 music-generation modules which are related in a very complex way as a musical HyperText. Each module generates a specific characteristic musical output as a result of the compositional strategy that has been applied. A module represents an abstract model of a specific musical behaviour. It does not contain any pre-organized musical material, but a formal description of it and the methods how it is being processed. The idea of autopoiesis - material organizing itself due to certain constraints - plays an important rule. By using a lot of different random generators which are controlling each other (which - according to serial thinking - form a scale between a completely deterministic and a completely chaotic behaviour), new variants of the same model are generated. Variants that may differ dramatically from each other, though they are always perceptable as "inheritances" of the given structural model.
More information about LEXIKON-SONATE can be found on the World-Wide Web under the following URL:
http://www.ping.at/users/essl/works/Lexikon-Sonate.html
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Dr. Karlheinz Essl
SAMT - Studio for Advanced Music Technology / Bruckner Conservatory Linz
E-Mail: essl@ping.at
WWW: http://www.ping.at/users/essl/index.html
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