{"id":74337,"date":"2016-09-05T14:05:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T19:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=74337"},"modified":"2016-09-05T14:17:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T19:17:50","slug":"how-to-use-randomness-in-electronic-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2016\/09\/05\/how-to-use-randomness-in-electronic-music\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Use Randomness In Electronic Music, Without Sounding Completely Random"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How To Random: Tech Time 008\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BHGE9l1c3qM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a long tradition of using random or &#8216;aleatory&#8217; techniques\u00a0in electronic music. Composers have used randomness in the composition process, random elements in performance instructions and electronics to introduce randomness.<\/p>\n<p>In this video tutorial,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.analogindustries.com\/b1934\/Yo+Dawg+I+Herd+U+Like+Random+So+I+Randomed+Ur+Random+Tech+Time+008\/\">How To Random<\/a>, <strong>Chris Randall<\/strong> (Analog Industries, Sister Machine Gun) shares some of the techniques he uses to incorporate\u00a0random elements\u00a0into his electronic music tracks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He discusses several\u00a0applications (links below). But Randall also demonstrates that using randomness, without sounding completely random, depends more on the decisions and judgement that you bring as a composer and performer.<\/p>\n<p>Resources\u00a0mentioned in the video:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cycling &#8217;74 M<\/strong>: <a class=\" yt-uix-servicelink \" href=\"https:\/\/cycling74.com\/products\/m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cycling74.com\/products\/m\/\" data-servicelink=\"CDEQ6TgiEwictru17PjOAhVOD04KHWmoCbQo-B0\">https:\/\/cycling74.com\/products\/m\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Audio Damage <strong>Replicant<\/strong> and <strong>Automaton<\/strong>: <a class=\" yt-uix-servicelink \" href=\"http:\/\/www.audiodamage.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.audiodamage.com\" data-servicelink=\"CDEQ6TgiEwictru17PjOAhVOD04KHWmoCbQo-B0\">http:\/\/www.audiodamage.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Reaktorplayer<\/strong> on Twitter: <a class=\" yt-uix-servicelink \" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reaktorplayer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reaktorplayer\" data-servicelink=\"CDEQ6TgiEwictru17PjOAhVOD04KHWmoCbQo-B0\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/reaktorplayer<\/a>\u00a0(Great source for daily links to algorithmic and random compositional tools, among other things.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are you using random elements in your electronic music? If so, leave a comment and share what you are doing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video tutorial, How To Random, Chris Randall shares some of the techniques he uses to introduce random elements into his electronic music tracks. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2016\/09\/05\/how-to-use-randomness-in-electronic-music\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Use Randomness In Electronic Music, Without Sounding Completely Random<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,32,7],"tags":[3507,2208,877,2209,4342],"class_list":["post-74337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-software-effects-processors","category-software-sequencers","tag-aleatory","tag-analog-industries","tag-audio-damage","tag-chris-randall","tag-randomness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/randomness-in-electronic-music-e1473101086199.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}