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Musical analysis from score, particularly of structural principles used by the composer, is an area fraught with potential errors caused by conjecture and interpretation. Analysis of music composed using a computer patching language may, alternatively, provide a far more reliable document of a composer’s methods. This paper examines a small number of patches created using Miller Puckette’s Pure Data (Pd), composed as part of a series of large scale electronic pieces.
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Barkl, M. (2010). Creating Memory: Reading a Patching Language. In: Nakatsu, R., Tosa, N., Naghdy, F., Wong, K.W., Codognet, P. (eds) Cultural Computing. ECS 2010. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15214-6_11
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