Process and Intuition in Music

Though we associate musical processes with minimalism, composers have been setting them in motion, breaking them, riffing off them as long as they've been producing notes and sounds. Think of a canon or a sequence. We will of course spend a good deal of time on minimalism and postminimalism. We also consider the use of audio phenomena such as feedback to create new types of musical evolutions through time. While we will be doing a lot of analyzing and listening, the aim ultimately will be to help you write experimental musical compositions where you play with various balances of process and intuition.