Mime
Stubbornly remaining somewhere between fight and flight. Always moving towards exhaustion.
Stubbornly remaining somewhere between fight and flight. Always moving towards exhaustion.
Several hundred microtonal tremoli make up nearly the entire substance of Mime. These tremoli were identified algorithmically: Starting with a list of microtonal fingerings, Michael Matsuno and I developed a series of rules for describing the physical difficulty of moving from one fingering to another. I then wrote software that could use these rules to identify all of the possible tremoli that could be drawn from our agreed-upon list of fingerings. Finding an order for them was another matter entirely…