Composing with computers: Meg makes music

Abstract

The young composer described in this case study used various exploration and development strategies while creating her music. Her exploration and development strategies changed over time, and her use of specific musical gestures became recognizable as her signature or style. She grew more fluent and used a wider variety of composition strategies as she gained experience, and her fluency as a composer was linked to works that appeared more satisfying to the participant and more musical and imaginative to the observers. Concurrently, she demonstrated an increasing awareness of the qualities and functions of sounds and gestures within her works, as well as a growing ability to hear her music internally and to use that ability while composing. An assertion from this case study is that time, tool, and technique are interactive in the composition process.

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