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@teledyn@mstdn.ca
2026-03-31 17:58:10

This came in via #B3ta but hilariously it recalls one of my first generative compositions from well-before the computer era, my submission to some CBC call for composers and done the old-fashioned way, graph paper and pencil, I used Conway's Live the same way, but on tablature for classical guitar.
It was a bitch to play and I didn't win any award, but in late-70's CBC 'classical' sensibilities, I submitted it as a lark, although I was serious. Well, mostly: the second section of Conway's Life for Guitar used a starting pattern that would last the duration, but was then CONSTRAINED by a musical rules of harmony using Jerome Kern's All The Things You Are to assassinate non-conforming tones and indeed, as expected, I found the notion of Harmony to be highly toxic. No one likes a composer with a sense of humour 😆
So far as I know, no recordings of my entry exist, the score is likely somewhere in the bottom of my notorious trunk so hated every moving day.
Conway's Life Music
vovanz.github.io/conways-life-