The reading states that random corruption could help prevent redundancy and repetition, resulting in less bored listeners. This inspires me to incorporate more noise during my live coding sessions, in the form of ? and rand functions, making the piece more unpredictable. The challenge, however, seems lie in navigating the right amount of randomness to use. During last class, when we were playing around with the ? function, I noticed that there was always a point where overusing the “?” function lead to the piece sounding more off and empty. Hitting the right amount of randomness seems to be optimize the sound, but anything below and beyond it seems to do the opposite.

This lead me to question, how much randomness is too much? Is there a point where adding more randomness decreases the musicality of the piece? How can I know when that point would be? Is it subjective or is there a formula for that too?