About the Technology

For Every Season . . ., Flautus Aeterna, Time Chants and Synapse
make use of a real-time interactive setting as follows: the
performer plays a written score, the computer follows along,
makes musical decisions, and performs its own accompaniment in
real-time.  The computer in Synapse also controls the videotape,
determining its mode of operation (play, stop) and cue functions.
The computer part was realized using interactive performance
software called Max which is published by Opcode.  All
programming of the score was conceived and executed by the
composer at the Radford University Center for Music Technology.


While the overall form of the work has been determined by the
composer, many of the details of the music have been realized
using a computer program, written by the composer, which applies
algorithmic processes to musical parameters such as pitch,
duration, sound location and choice of timbre.  All algorithms
have been constructed by the composer to create a sense of
development within a framework of repetition.