Class notes...
- Lewis created a code in the 80s for 4 bit systems (Atari, etc) computer is making all the decisions based on the note you played, the note you played before that, and the note you played before that...
- He talks about underlying psychometrics of jazz improvisation...their active memory while improvising is quite finite - just the last few notes you played (last 3 notes you played, and last 3 notes your partner played, etc). He used this as a philosophical prompt to build this based on a filter.
Aristid Lindenmayer
L-systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system
- Put forth idea that every organism with a cellular structure has a code
- DNA of humans, plants, animals, any living thing can be used to recreate the structure w/code
PDF: The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants
Applications of Generative String Substitution Systems in Computer Music
Roger Luke DuBois
http://sites.bxmc.poly.edu/~lukedubois/dissertation/index.html
Christopher Alexander: A Pattern Language
http://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Ecological_Building/A_Pattern_Language.pdf