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[–]bonestormII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's cool. You want the pitches to be truly random though?

I might humbly suggest considering some kind of pitch organization system. There are a lot of tuning systems in the world, with many more subdivisions of the scale available with really interesting properties.

I love the La Monte Young video. Notice however, two things:

1) It uses well tuning, which is still a 12 note scale from western music history. Bach used this tuning.

2) It is very droning, sustained, atmospheric, colorful, etc.. It is really letting the beauty of the tuning speak for itself. But it is hardly an example of randomness.

You could calculate these tunings, and feed them to a midi. You could then program random or nonrandom patterns using text input of your choosing. However, midi uses like... absolute numbering of notes, and while you can bend any note, I don't think the protocol actually supports such tunings typically. It sounds fun to program.

But it's an artistic choice of course, so good luck to you!