Math and Music, Models and Metaphors: Alberto Posadas' 'Tree-Like Structures'.
Alberto Posadas (b. 1967) often draws upon extramusical sources in order to nurture his compositional practices; among them, mathematical ones remain as the most persistent influence in his growing body of works. In particular, Lindenmayer systems stand as his most recurrent mathematical model, gove...
| Published in: | Contemporary Music Review Vol. 38; no. 1/2; pp. 107 - 132 |
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