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Andrew May is a former scientist with an MA from Cambridge University and a PhD in Astrophysics from Manchester University. After a thirty year career spanning the academic, government and private sectors, he has now settled in the South-West of England where he works as a freelance writer and consultant on subjects as diverse as defence technology, history, physics, Forteana and New Age beliefs.

Algorithmic music revisited

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It was around seven years ago that I started to get interested in “algorithmic composition” – i.e. using rule-based computer algorithms to create music. I’m not talking about AI here, which involves gigantic, data-intensive programs that absorb millions of human-created musical works and use them to work out the compositional rules for themselves. As I’ve w

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