Random Music

The random music is a current of the Western music erudite born in second half of the 20th century, and characterized by the exploitation of the Hasard in certain elements of its composition or its execution. Developed by musicians such as John Cage or Earle Brown, the music Aléatoire attracted several Compositeur S which tried to control this “chance”, and to study by là-même the limit between the white Bruit, which contains all the Fréquence S, and the musical creation, which organizes them. This option of chance - or Risk - is articulated around one of the two poles which emerged by need for the evolution of the musical forms:

  • on the one hand one realizes that it is not enough to give oneself certain rules to build a musical work. The free will of the type-setter (or the interprets) remains vital for creation and cannot be replaced by a random succession of chains of Nombres. It is enough although the random formalism (mathematized) calculates without it not encroaching on the sensitive assets of the type-setter. It is the direction of the evolution of the tool " ordinateur" in the passage of a musical Data-processing deciding rules arbitrarily a priori, with a construction more turned towards the simple Computer Musical instrument.

  • in addition, and a contrario, the mathematical objects which developed thanks to the machines of calculation get truly an intermediary towards Paradigme S esthetics which the musical experimentation will gradually try to update. This intermediary would be located then between a regular Ordre, Périodique, and a uncontrolled Chaos, Aléatoire and singular. It is the direction of the evolution of the compositions of random Musique, in particular of the music Stochastique of Iannis Xenakis.

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