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Elisabeth Harnik/Improvisational Re-assemblies

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Next to being a composer, Elisabeth Harnik is a well-known piano improviser. In her project, she sought to understand some of the stylistic choices she makes in her chosen musical constellations. For this, we recorded improvisations and generated new ones using prefix- and suffix-trees within a variety of context based methods.

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Notes

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    Biographical introduction and texts from the composer translated from the German by Tamara Friebel.

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    “veredeln, aufsetzten, anreichern” roughly translates to: “refine, setup, accumulate”.

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    A cellular automaton consists of a number of cells, which may assume a certain number of states. The temporal development of the system is represented in an n-dimensional cell space, where the cells change their states accordingly to their states and the states of the neighbouring cells.

  4. 4.

    Translated from the German “Man kann sich dem Unbekannten mit einer Methode und einem Kompass nähern, aber mit einer Landkarte würde man niemals dorthin gelangen”.

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    Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York.

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    For an overview of Markov chains, see for example [1, Chap. 11] and [3, Chap. 3].

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    We used a smaller corpus to make the figure more readable.

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  1. Institute for Composition, Music Theory, Music History and Conducting, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Graz, Austria

    Elisabeth Harnik

  2. Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Graz, Austria

    Hanns Holger Rutz & Gerhard Nierhaus

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    Gerhard Nierhaus

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Harnik, E., Rutz, H.H., Nierhaus, G. (2015). Elisabeth Harnik/Improvisational Re-assemblies. In: Nierhaus, G. (eds) Patterns of Intuition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9561-6_2

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