Live coding: um algoritmo gerador de uma sonoridade tonal em A Study in Keith (2009) de Andrew Sorensen

Abstract

This document presents a synthesized version of a versatile technique whose name is live coding, its historical buildings in music, and a simulation of a tonal improvisation, guided by improvisation with programming languages. In the Introduction (see p. xv), we present a definition of live coding. The definition highlights a focus on music, but does not exclude other artistic powers. In Chapter 1(see p. 1), we highlight a creative mechanism of this technique in two unmusical contexts. In Chapter 2 (see p. 13), we listed periods of musical activities that prototyped and formalized the creative engine of the first chapter. In Chapter 3 (see p. 31), we analyzed a musical proposition, a Sorensen and Swift’s video entitled A Study in Keith (2009), according to the first mental mechanism chapter. The contribution of this work to the Brazilian musicology is a historiographical organization of a technique still little developed in portuguese.