Teleology in Algorithmic Composition Software

"Also characteristic... is Schenker's emphasis on organic and teleological (purpose and goal rather than cause and effect) interpretations of the world around him." - 
- http://www.schenkerguide.com/historicalcontext.html


This is closely connected with Schenker's "organicism":


Schenker suggested various ways in which music could be understood as organic:
• he proposed that music can be understood as growing and developing in successive layers from a simple seed - the fundamental structure 
• he suggested that the fundamental descent spanned and generated a whole work and thus helped make it a coherent whole 
• he showed how works were unified by patterns that recurred on different layers of the piece - known as parallelisms 
• his explanation of how tonal music is derived from the harmonic series explicitly refers to music's natural tendency for growth

- http://www.schenkerguide.com/organicism.html

'music is never comparable to mathematics or architecture, but only to language, a kind of tonal language' (Heinrich Schenker - Free Composition, p. 5)

(concerning the ideas of Rupert Sheldrake) 

"Organisms are clearly more than just complex machines: no machine has ever been known to grow spontaneously from a machine egg or to regenerate after damage! Unlike machines, organisms are more than the sum of their parts; there is something within them that is holistic and purposive, directing their development toward certain goals."
- http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/science/prat-shl.htm



The Transformation Engine runs like most computer software as a "cause and effect" engine. The chord changes - a cause - and therefore the pitch choices of the diminutions change (via the mode tables.)

How to build a more "goal-oriented" system?

1) Perhaps use the voice-pitch from the next chord while creating diminutions based on the current chord? Would need to separate 

atomadr hsstruct LOAD.VOICE#s

from  hsstruct dup +ModeTable.00 LOAD.MT.HARMONIC    \ close to verbatim

hsstruct dup +ModeTable.01 LOAD.MT.MELODIC     \ most generous

hsstruct dup +ModeTable.02 LOAD.MT.VERBATIM    \ used to be LOAD.MT.GTR

etc. 

in INSTALL.CHORD.INTO.HARMONIC.STRUCTURE

2) A "pre-influence" parameter that could be set per chord, to adjust the when it comes into effect before the chord actually changes.

Plogue Bidule (0.9734) - broken Window Behaviour on OSX 10.9

Bidule Preferences - stored in ~/Library/Preferences/
in the form of two files: com.plogue.bidule.plist and  com.plogue.bidulewx

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and also com.plogue.bidulewx  in the same location. Here's mine as of March 4 2014:

file1=/Users/bgdegazio/Documents/Plogue_User_Layouts _BD/BerlinStringsSimpleOrchestraUACC-03.bidule
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