Analysis by Modeling: Xenakis'sST/10-1 080262
Damián Keller, Brian Ferneyhough · Journal of New Music Research · 2004
This paper proposes analysis by modeling as a complement to current analytical practices. We present an analysis of Xenakis's algorithmic composition ST/10-1 080262. Two models were developed in order to study the temporal quantization processes and the streaming-fusion processes in this piece. Our study shows that fused granular textures could have been obtained by constraining the use of timbres to closely related classes and by increasing slightly the density of events.