Cut-up text is an aleatory literary technique in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text.
It was used notably by William S. Burroughs in the late 60’s and early 70’s, and influenced the work of David Bowie, Curt Cobain and others. More recently, cut-up text has been used [...]

LvB’s X has introduced LvB’s X 2.0 - Virtual Music Composer, “music motive/phrase maker” software, an application that promises to compose music so you don’t have to.
The software works as a composer instead of a tool for composing. Users can create the basic part of a song by developing the motive which allows a key [...]

Break out the filter banks, crank up the vocoders, hook-up a microphone and a kazoo, patch your brains out and get funky! Cyndustries has announced Bug Off!, the 2005 Aleatoric Music Contest.
The theme this year is Singing Robots. Pavarobotti may hit the high C’s, but hasn’t found a place yet in any of the tenor [...]