Algorithmic composition is the technique of using
algorithms to create
music.Algorithms (or, at the very least, formal sets of rules) have been used to compose music for centuries; the procedures used to plot voice-leading in Western
counterpoint, for example, can often be reduced to algorithmic determinacy. The term is usually reserved, however, for the use of formal procedures to make music without human intervention, either through the introduction of
chance procedures or the use of
computers. There is a radical distinction (both in terms of philosophy and in the heard result) between
composers who use indeterminate (e.g.
stochastic) procedures to compose music and those who use routines which produce deterministic results given a fixed input into the algorithm.
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