Re: non musical looping

["alex millar" <abm1213@worldnet.att.net>]

Modern statistics (computer-based) is bursting at the staples with looping.
Anything having to do with optimizing (making the best estimate of
something) anything, has recursive (looping)  programming as its method. 
The
results are everywhere. When some of the stock analysts tell you what to 
buy
or sell its there. When google produces results for you, I bet its looping.
When the ICBMs and smart bombs drop from the sky to anahilate their target
you can thank looping for guiding them accurately. When the market
researchers and data miners are snooping through your purchase history, 
they
wouldn't have a job cept for looping. WHen the IRS develops a model to
detect cheaters or when actuarys develop a model to detect claim fraud they
rely on looping. So now to bring it back to art, when Cage was doing his
Iching, and Burroughs doing his cut up method, and the surrealists 
automatic
writing, they were doing organic forms of looping. Aleatory computer based
music is generally driven by representations of probability distributions 
to
choose notes, durations, volumes, tempo and all. Applied math makes music.

ALex