"Heritage Equation"
For Solo Viola
2022
Link To Hi-Res PDF Score
Published by LNM Editions
Saturday, February 26, 2022
Madrigal Avalta Lucivity. (A Compaction Music) Bil Smith Composer, 2020. The Recording
"Madrigal Avalta Lucivity"
The Recording on SoundCloud:
On Compaction Music...
In philosophy, reduction (compaction music) is the process by which one object, property, concept, theory, etc., is shown to be explicable in terms of another, lower level, entity.
In particular, a concern of philosophy is as to the scope of physical theory, and whether, for example, all events are ultimately physical events, a discussion closely related to the topic of causal closure.In music, such reduction is generally desirable, because it explains why and how the work which is being reduced exists, and because it promotes conceptual and theoretical economy.
Reducing musical properties to properties of sonic particles thus explains these properties and integrates them into a single explanatory framework, that of aural structure.
Thus we might also describe reduction as a process analogous to compaction, by which one theory (or concept, or property, and so on) is wholly subsumed under another.
Compactionism can be divided into three general areas – methodological, theoretical, and ontological – and reduction (the process) into two – theoretical and ontological.
Methodological reductionism is the attempt to reduce explanations to the smallest possible entities. In science, methodological reductionism would result in the atomic explanation of a substance’s boiling point, and perhaps in an explanation based on even smaller particles (quarks, perhaps).
Theoretical reductionism is reductionism applied to hypothetical theories, the goal of reducing the present multiplicity of theories to a single super-theory through the process of theoretical reduction, the theory of everything.
Finally, ontological reductionism is the belief that reality is composed of a minimum number of kinds of entities or substances. This claim is usually metaphysical, and is most commonly a form of monism, in effect claiming that all objects, properties and events are reducible to a single substance.
(A dualist who is an ontological reductionist would presumably believe that everything is reducible to one of two substances.)
"CatchTrigger" (A Compaction Piece) for Female Chorus : "her intolerance was attenuated by a rather unexpected liberalism"
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"CatchTrigger" (A Compaction Piece) for Female Chorus, Chamber Ensemble, Reductive Cellular Automata, and Negative Re-Synthesis Based on the Karplus-Strong Algorithm.
Bil Smith Composer.
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| "her intolerance was attenuated by a rather unexpected liberalism" |
My compaction works are much in the style of identifying with an Oulipian theorem of puzzle, rule, governance and adherence. These works have been inspired by both original and documented music and art which is unified by a common thread.
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| Score excerpt: Irabeag Markruler, Krakens' Muscular System |
Saturday, February 19, 2022
"Poling Slowly in an Aluminum Canoe for Viola"
"Poling Slowly in an Aluminum Canoe"
for Viola
2022
Bil Smith Composer
Published by LNM Editions
Link to PDF Score
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZDmTiBmIRVLbwfoLQTwNXev7dE6UfgMo/view?usp=sharing
Saturday, February 12, 2022
Monday, February 7, 2022
"La Passion Selon Sade." Sylvano Bussotti. The Score (PDF)
"La Passion Selon Sade."
Sylvano Bussotti.
The Score (PDF)
Saturday, February 5, 2022
Friday, February 4, 2022
“A Scale Majestically Slower” For Piccolo Trumpet, Percussion, Device & Steel Guitar. The Score
“A Scale Majestically Slower”
For Piccolo Trumpet, Percussion, Device & Steel Guitar
Bil Smith Composer
2015-2016
A Commission From Alitalia
PDF Link To The Score:
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Exploratory Concepts in Vergient Composition: 'Phasient Nativism and Plyiant Neuroconstructivism'
Excerpt 19. 41 Seconds for Soprano.
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| "Dreams and Anxieties in the Dune-Like Fragments of Her Body" commissioned work in progress for Soprano Saxophone and Bassoon. |
I am sharing this with my input.
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| "Dreams and Anxieties in the Dune-Like Fragments of Her Body" commissioned work in progress for Soprano Saxophone and Bassoon. |
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| "Dreams and Anxieties in the Dune-Like Fragments of Her Body" commissioned work in progress for Soprano Saxophone and Bassoon. |
Radical concept nativism is the thesis that virtually all notational concepts are innate. Notoriously endorsed by Jerry Fodor, radical concept nativism has had few supporters. However, it has proven difficult to say exactly what's wrong with Fodor's argument. We show that previous responses are inadequate on a number of grounds.
Chief among these is that they typically do not achieve sufficient distance from Fodor's dialectic, and, as a result, they do not illuminate the central question of how new primitive concepts are acquired. To achieve a fully satisfactory response to Fodor's argument, one has to juxtapose questions about conceptual content with questions about cognitive development.
To this end, we formulate a general schema for thinking about how concepts are acquired and then present a detailed illustration.
Nativism is a theory advanced by a number of leading evolutionary psychologists, especially Steven Pinker.
Nativism is the view that there are certain intuitive psychological distinctions that develop in individuals or populations, things like aesthetic preferences, and that there are widely held characteristics that are a part of all human beings by virtue of genetics, like language, sound and forethought.
Purely through the genetically determined features of development, psychological features will emerge.
Neuroconstructivism, by contrast, is a view articulated best by Annette-Karmiloff Smith. The view asserts, basically, that there are a number of psychological features which are actively influenced by the environment.
We have to have an environment behave in a certain way, Karmiloff-Smith argues, in order to realize what we consider a "neuro-typical" brain and mind. This doesn't reject the significance of genetic considerations, but rather includes a caveat: that we are really bound up in a discussion of complex factors in the development of our psychology.
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