Dear Johan
You should use one of the works by Iannis Xenakis from the early 1960s where
the score was generated as a sequence of random variables from specified
distributions. Metastasis is the best known example. There's an accessible
summary of his technique at
http://decidedlyodd.com/cw/saarbruecken/ausarbeitung.pdf
There are also countless contemporary attempts at using Markov chains either
to analyse or to compose music. Almost none of it sounds good though!
Good luck with the lectures
Rob
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From: Johan Bring [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 May 2004 14:33
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Subject: Statistics and music?
I would like to start each lecture with a piece of music related to
statistics.
I would like to have suggestions of songs/pices that can be related to
statistics/mathematics.
For example:
- The Marrige of Figaro by Mozart starts with Figaro measuring his and
Susannas room (my introductury lectures often focus on measurement).
- 'Between zero and one.' by Bo Kaspers Orkester (in Swedish!) is a good
introduction to a lecture in probability theory.
Best regrads,
Johan
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