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Lexicon-Sonata is Online
By Karlheinz Essl

LEXIKON-SONATE, an infinite interactive realtime composition for computer-controlled piano, was originally implemented as a computer program (written in MAX) which used to run only on Apple Macintosh computers:

   http://www.ping.at/users/essl/works/Lexikon-Sonate.html

Since recently, this piece is also available on the Web and you can listen to its completely unforeseeable music online. Please point your browser to:

   http://www.ping.at/users/essl/works/lexson-online.html

There are existing two different versions:

* an interactive, form-based CGI-script where you can combine the various musical structure generators at will;

* a non-interactive Javascript implementation which will play a new version every time you reload the page (be surprised!);

System Requirements:

A Web browser which is capable of playing different MIDI-files at the same time; a Javascript-savy browser is obligatory for the Javascript version. Best results have been obtained with Netscape 3.0 (with installed LiveAudio-PlugIn) on an Apple Macintosh computer with Quicktime 2.5.

Also visit the MindShipMind - an interactive multimedial Web Oracle at

   http://www.ping.at/users/essl/works/mindshipmind.html

Dr. Karlheinz Essl
SAMT - Studio for Advanced Music & Media Technology
Bruckner-Konservatorium Linz / Austria
www: http://www.ping.at/users/essl/index.html

[ Editor's note:
[
[ I found the computer-based version of "Sonata" quite intriguing.
[ Semi-random music is generated in real time under the control of
[ several user-selectable parameters,. It's very pleasant random
[ music, reminiscent of an enlightened wind-chime!
[
[ Robbie

(Message sent Tue 25 Feb 1997, 19:20:06 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

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