12796 / 18210 · Workshop 101 — Arrangement as a Generative System: Rules, Constraints, State Changes, and How to Design a Performance That Can Recreate Itself← prev⊞ allnext →
101.166The deeper composition lesson
Composition and improvisation are not opposites.
A generative system occupies the middle:
the composer defines rules.
The performer realizes them.
Sometimes the same person is both.