I'm sick of the same old stuff. Robert and I want to play something different. We've been thinking a lot about "chance music" or aleatoric music, lately - it's roots, beginnings and such.
Famous cases of chance music was created simply by throwing a bunch of sheet music on the floor with set musical patterns, and playing what was on the sheets as they were picked up in order; a musical pick up sticks. Sometimes total crap comes out of it. But, sometimes, beauty emerged. The perceived quality is irrelevant. What is relevant is that something new and wholly original is being created.
Probably, the most recognizable of chance music moments came from The Beatles song 'A Day In The Life', the last track off Sgt. Pepper. Leading up to the end of the song, there is a 40-piece orchestra that swells and finishes the song. The orchestra had only a certain amount of time to fill in the song.
Robert wants you to refer to the dodecaphonics wikipedia page, basically they had to use all 12 notes before a note could be repeated. The idea was that there was no key, no resolution and no one note was more important than another. Imagine if we could get that concept right in society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique
