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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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