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daniel karlsson

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I guess I started composing music around the same time I started recording music. It's always been connected to that. Listening to sound and adding to it. You pick up things as you go along. I compose in varying degrees. I subscribe to the notion that composition is organized sound. Sounds can be organized in a whole bunch of different ways. Algorithmic composition for instance can be a lot of things. An infinite number of things actually. I tend to leave some parameters open in some way. If I am writing for an instrumentalist or an ensemble or in some other way dealing w/ human beings I might leave durations open to a degree prescribing that they should be equal in duration to a slow comfortable exhalation. The sequence of pitches or events I might close. If there are more than one sequence of pitches or events playing simultaneously this opens the door even further to combinatorics. It gets big quick that way. A lot of my pieces now are fixed media pieces for more than two speakers. Fixed media has both it's advantages and it's disadvantages compared to flesh and blood ensembles reading, interpreting your music. As I go back and forth I find that my work within one discipline enriches the other. I like to do both.