Musical information organisms: An approach to composition

摘要: This text is the beginning of a formalized reflection on some poetic aspects my present compositional world. After brief survey our historical background, general conceptual framework, inspired by research in knowledge representation and categorization, established. Using two complementary representational systems, I develop microworld paradigm, paradigm which first sparks imagination. Higher-level musical structures, considered as evolving societies morphological spaces, are then examined, including overall form piece. Excerpts from own work analyzed terms writing techniques adopted. Finally, few extensions to this approach succinctly discussed, together with consequences that challenge traditional perception, analysis, performance, interpretation.