In 1995 I decided to spend a year in the African Academy of Music and Arts near Accra, Ghana. World Master Mustaffa Tettey Adi was still teaching at that time, attracting drummers and composers from all over the world. As a classically trained pianist, I was trying to notate the rhythms we studied. This has failed time after time, because every time the “same” piece was played, it was significantly different. During one lesson that was held outdoors in nature, huge iguanas came quite close to us and froze, apparently listening to the drums. The teacher claimed it hypnotizes them. As he resumed playing I realized for the first time that he is following no deterministic linear score, but rather a generative syntax, a secret language in which rules limit randomness. The need to study computer music became urgent. I enrolled in the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag, and started the research that keeps me fascinated till this day, a research commonly known as Algorithmic composition.
Israel
http://www.tedermusic.com
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/734464/soundscapes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2X7ne5tPs4
