A Brief Survey of Mapping in Algorithmic Composition.
Paul Doornbusch · University of Michigan Library Repository · 2002
Mapping concerns the connection between structures, or gestures and audible results in a musical performance or composition. Algorithmic composition is sometimes the process of imagining a gesture or structure perhaps physical or visual and then applying a mapping process to turn that structure of the conceptual domain into sound which may display the original conception in some way. This article looks at mapping from the point of view of algorithmic composition, particularly where persistence is an issue, such that the gesture (conceptual domain) is embodied and perceptible in the musical result.