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Re: Mathematics, Prime Numbers, & Looping with the EDP



Title: Re: Mathematics, Prime Numbers, & Looping with the EDP
At 10:47 PM -0600 6/20/05, Hartung, Kris wrote:

How about creating a looped piece by using the multiply function on the EDP and the series of prime numbers...Has it been done? 

I do this as a matter of course in most of my performances.

Or perhaps the question is why would anyone want to do it? 

I do it because one of the main reasons I use looping is to explore relationships between voices (or between variants of a source voice). The first loop pieces I remember hearing were such things as "Come Out" where even the idea of a prime number relationship was pretty "straight."
 
So for me the use of primes is a way to keep the music pulsatile while avoiding simplistic metric relationships.
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