automated counterpoint

Hi Joseph,

> I just wanted to say that I enjoyed all your compositions you have
> recently posted! However I *did* have one question: two of them
> are, purportedly by the "Fractal Tune Smithy" and one is by *you* but
> all three seem somewhat "algorithmic..." How do you distinguish the
> author?? This is not meant in any kind of deprecating way, since it
> seems this kind of method is working well for this kind of music.

> This definitely falls into the kind of "automatic" or "algorithmic"
> composition that Kraig Grady has been discussing... I haven't had
> time to comment on it before.

I wonder, ...

I do use a kind of passing tones approach while improvising so that
is a similarity.

Also, some of the fractal tunes are based on musical phrases that one plays
and fts makes into a fractal tune, and when I use the timing of the phrases
in the fractal tunes to make the rhythm more interesting, then it would be
in my timing of course, - I don't know if there is anything particular about
that, but those ones could have some of the feel of the way I play things
perhaps, if there is anything to that.

However, I certainly couldn't improvise an augmented canon, while on the other hand,
FTS finds it easier to play one of those than anything else :-)

Robert.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "Robert Walker" <robertwalker@n...> wrote:

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>
> I wonder, ...
>
> I do use a kind of passing tones approach while improvising so that
> is a similarity.
>
> Also, some of the fractal tunes are based on musical phrases that
one plays and fts makes into a fractal tune, and when I use the
timing of the phrases in the fractal tunes to make the rhythm more
interesting, then it would be in my timing of course, -

***My guess is that you are actually *learning* your style from FTS!
You've been so involved in its construction and in the kind of music
that it generates, that when it comes time to do your "free"
improvisations, they sound like compositions of the composer "Fractal
Tune Smithy..."

??

Just a guess...

JP