Concluding Remarks
• Music as a set of combinatorial processes with concurrency control
• Improvisation as a stylistic combinatorial system
• Open form establishes a set of conditions and actions for synchronization
• Generalizes and automates existing DAW tools (session view - clip, follow...)
Combinatorial systems date back to ars inventendi (Leibniz) and are the core of ars
magna (great art) of the Franciscan monk Ramon Llull (1232-1316), as well as the
ecstatic Kabbalah of Abraham Abulafia (1240-1291), and Renaissance philosophers
such as Giordano Bruno (1548-1600).
’́One should not pay attention to the properties of terms but only to the fact
that they define an order, a texture, an architecture‘̀ U. Eco, The Search for the
Perfect Language, Wiley-Blackwell 1997
Shlomo Dubnov - University of California, San Diego - CREL (2016) Automatic Construction of Interactive Machine Improvisation Scenarios from Audio Recordings 20/20
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