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Fig. 6.1
Pf Q
“wiring diagrams” for different computer music applications, a non-exhaustive
set of possibilities. An optional human software controller is depicted to the left of the modular
decomposition; the shared audio environment, denoted
Ψ
, and placed to the right of the system,
represents all utterances from instrument musicians and other computer music systems. The di-
agram shows eight common computer music systems:
A
—Audio analysis;
B
—Audio analysis
with added functionality as provided by
f
(e.g. real-time score generation);
C
—Audio synthesis;
D
—Generative (Algorithmic) music;
E
—Live computer music involving a musician-controller
who is able to monitor and adjust the functioning of a largely automatic and reactive system (such
systems have become the accepted practice in live computer music settings);
F
—Reactive sys-
tem as used, for example, in Sound Installations;
G
,
H
—prototype and actual Live Algorithmic
systems. The ideal, wiring
H
, runs autonomously without the presence of any human control. In
practice, some human attention is often required, as depicted in
G
