Random Walk: A New Method for Aleatoric Musical Composition
Proceedings of Bridges 2025: Mathematics and the Arts
Pages 207–214
Regular Papers
Abstract
This paper presents a new method for composing aleatoric (chance-based) music by performing multiple random walks through mathematical graphs constructed from existing musical scores. I introduce a mathematical definition of this technique and then describe a physical procedure for performing this process with yarn and paper, which I used to create a 19-movement composition for piano as well as multiple additional artistic outputs.