Vorbei is a program designed to generate a unique and complete piece of music every time it is run, and to do so with no external interaction. Each piece generated by vorbei can be understood as a series of variations derived from a gesture generated at the beginning of a given run.

The piece was completed in partial fulfillment of my Master’s of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at Simon Fraser University and received support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University.

Vorbei was presented at the Fifth International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (MUME):