Kaleidophon

>Hi Carl. Kaleidophon is a kind of functional canon. Not an exact canon,
>because the note durations are taken at discrete points of a continuous
>function (a sine function, in fact). This "sampling" of the function
>(at whatever time a new note is needed) leads to rhythmic values in each
>voice that are not exactly canonic even though the phase-shifted functions
>*are* strictly canonic. Or something like that ....

Hmmm. I'm not sure I follow. Isn't this the cannon with each part
starting at a different place in the theme? Isn't this the one where I
pointed out the "diagonal of 1/1's" in the graphic representation? Or was
that a hasty analogy?

>I suppose the piece is a kind of "algo-comp" though I don't think of it
>that way. More like process music, where the piece is completely
>determined and constrained by the process. early Reich, Lucier, etc...

Well, it might not fit well into the genre called "algo-comp", but I sort
of use the words process and algorithm interchangably here.

Carl