Birds on a Wire: Visual Music, Indeterminacy and Inter-media Techniques

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Indeterminacy in music is the technique of removing some or all of the decision-making process that is typically involved in composition (from the composer's hands), and randomizing it somehow.
This is a good example of cross-media prompting of musical sounds (a type of reverse data visualization). Obviously the composer still has a hand in indeterminant music, to some degree, it's really just about sourcing your ideas somewhere else and then running with them. For example, here the composer made the decision of the rhythmic value of each bird/note. He could have also decided whether each bird is on a line of the staff or in the space, giving him even more freedom in the actual choosing of notes. Simply "noticing" (and then realizing) something like this is the true artistic statement, though. It's about a way of looking at the world and seeing beauty all around you. Check it out!