Born in New Zealand, Vercoe came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s and created the MUSIC 360 program for synthesizing on IBM/360 computers. About his composition Synthesism (1970) he writes, Much of its material is either derived from or modified by the totally patternless output of a random-number generator. The structural base of the work is an ordered set of sixteen numbers that comprise a geometric series from 1 to 2. This set is projected into...
VERCOE, Barry
(*1937)