Stochastic Composition and Stochastic Timbre: GENDY3 by Iannis Xenakis

Serra, Marie-Hélène

1993

Perspective of New Music 31(1): 236-257.

Language: English

GENDY3 is an electroacoustic work by Iannis Xenakis whose music's structure and sound synthesis are based on stochastic algorithms. This work is composed with a program in BASIC called GENDY (DYnamic GENeration). The author investigates the process of computation of this work at each of its levels from sound production to global architecture.