Word: randomization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea belonging to folklore or to the history of art," said Corbu, "can 'be taken into consideration in such an enterprise." The city is universal, ancient, and wholly modern; its major buildings are orchestrations of pillars and brises soleil, of soaring archways and intertwining ramps, of random openings and tense façades that dance like notes on a musical score. They are princely and crude at the same time-both beautiful and brutal...
They are not so clear on an appropriate substitute. Proposals for an arbitrary assignment by computers (a la Yale) seem a little drastic. The need for a simplified method that will eliminate the gross imbalance of some houses does not dictate a flight to the caprice of the random number table...
...leaving his car in a prime spot for most of the day or obstructing traffic. But the increased fines will work as a deterrent only with better enforcement than at present. In a city where 100 per cent enforcement is impossible because of the size of the police department, random fines must be made. But random fines can be effective if they are regular, stiff, and "unfixable...
Maxfield's music is legitimate because its sounds and textures are not miscellaneous but on the contrary are obviously carefully selected. Unity and coherence keep the sounds from appearing random, gimmicky or incomprehensible. Continuity of tone color was particularly prominent in Night Music, where long whines, wheezes and whistles soared up one after another among balloons of deep sound burgeoning from beneath. The extra-musical connotations enhanced the experience: staccato bursts that began like machine-gun rounds softened into bird-like chirps...
...into form, Maxfield cuts his tape into short segments which he then fits together without plan. In Peripateia either these segments were too short or the original tape had no contrasts. I felt that the piece was static and monotonous because it lacked 'events'--that is, a sequences of random happenings that would give a sense of succession of ideas or moods. At its worst, Maxfield's music has an over-blown, almost Mahlerian grandiloquence...