Stochastic Music & Granular Synthesis

Stochastic music is method of composition in 20th century classical music developed by Iannis Xenakis. Stochastic processes may be used in music to compose a fixed piece or may be produced in performance. Iannis Xenakis is remembered for the pioneering use of stochastic mathematical techniques in his compositions, including probability (Maxwell-Boltzmann kinetic theory of gases, aleatory distribution of points on a plane, minimal constraints, Gaussian distribution, Markov chains), game theory, group theory, Boolean algebra and Brownian motion.