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	Aleatory - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aleatory (or aleatoric) means "pertaining to luck", and derives from the Latin word alea, the rolling die.
		One of the most ambitious aleatory projects in poetry is Raymond Queneau's Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes (Hundred Thousand Billion Poems).
		Barry Salt, now better known as a film scholar, is known to have made a film six reels long which takes the word aleatory quite literally by including a customized die for the projectionist to roll to determine the reel order (720 permutations).
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /aleatory.htm (210 words)

	Aleatoric Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In aleatory music the players are encouraged to choose the sequence of movements, sections or individual chords and notes, or to improvise on a pattern or idea suggested by the composer--for example, in Ligeti's Aventures, on letters of the alphabet, and in Lutoslawski's Preludes and Fugue, on a series of lines, squares and triangles.
		Aleatory music is, in conception, similar to both Far Eastern art music and to jazz and rock, all of which involve improvisation, on an agreed basis, as a feature of the performance.
		Aleatory procedures have been used in the theatre, and in the recitation of poetry; but there are few signs here that they have progressed beyond the experimental stage.
	web.mala.bc.ca /guppy/crew410/aleatoric_music.htm (838 words)

	Aleatoric music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aleatoric music (or aleatory) is music in which some element of the composition is left to chance or some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s).
		The term was intended by Boulez to distinguish his work from pieces composed through the application of chance operations by John Cage and Cage's aesthetic of indeterminacy.
		Among examples of aleatory music, Klavierstück XI by Karlheinz Stockhausen features a number of elements to be performed in changing sequences, certain orchestral works of Witold Lutosławski contain music where the orchestral ensemble is not precisely dictated, and in some works by Krzysztof Penderecki characteristic sequences are repeated quickly, producing a kind of oscillating sound.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aleatoric_music (491 words)

	Conference papers - Aleatory and Epistemic Uncertainties in Official Assessments
		Aleatory and epistemic uncertainties require different management but they are rarely distinguished in official literature.
		Methods: Aleatory uncertainties arise from possible variation and random errors in the values of the parameters and their estimates.
		Aleatory uncertainties are delineated by uncertainty analysis, and managed through modelling, decision trees and statistical analysis.
	www.statistics.gov.uk /iaoslondon2002/contributed_papers/CP_Indrayan.asp (210 words)

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		The objective of this communication is to introduce the concepts of aleatory and epistemic uncertainties in official assessment and to raise awareness about differentials in these two types of uncertainties.
		Aleatory Uncertainties Aleatory uncertainties can be understood as those arising from factors internal to the system.
		The primary source of aleatory uncertainties is the person concerned or the unit to which the data belong.
	www.statistics.gov.uk /IAOSlondon2002/contributed_papers/downloads/CP_Indrayan.doc (969 words)

	Aleatory -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aleatoric (The creation of beautiful or significant things) art is that which exploits the principle of ((thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work) randomness.
		One of the most ambitious aleatory projects in (Literature in metrical form) poetry is (Click link for more info and facts about Raymond Queneau) Raymond Queneau's Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes ((Click link for more info and facts about Hundred Thousand Billion Poems) Hundred Thousand Billion Poems).
		At the premiere of his most famous work, 4′ 33″;, the extremely virtuosic pianist David Tudor sat at the piano for four minutes and thirty-three seconds and the reactions of the audience (whispering, coughs, laughs...) formed the music.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/aleatory.htm (210 words)

	aleatory music - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about aleatory music
		Another term for aleatory music is ‘mobile form’.
		Aleatory music is distantly related to the 18th-century ‘musical dice game’ and to the freely assembled music for silent movies using theme catalogues by Giuseppe Becce and others.
		The use by John Cage of dice and the I Ching differs in that it intervenes in the actual process of composition.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Aleatory+music (164 words)

	Aleatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is the key assumption to liberal thought in the United States: aleatory factors are so important and influential to human development that they trump any...
		Herzog particularly finds appeal in the footageâs aleatory nature where events occur spontaneously before the camera.
		say that narrative is a form of rationalization, an artificial projection of meaning, since it provides an element of coherence for the aleatory, or disjunctive...
	aleatory.wikiverse.org (178 words)

	AG_rev
		Aleatory Grammar are engaged in an experimental project of proper integrity, but there's also a pleasant, stoned jazz quality here that warms the heart.
		Aleatory Grammar, his duo with Danish composer Jakob Draminsky Højmark, finds Cunningham running live trumpet through Korg’s Kaoss II Pad, with Draminsky using a laptop to recontextualize a corral of acoustic samples in real time.
		Aleatory Grammar aren’t always able to avoid this pitfall, but, when they do, the results can be exciting.
	www.multisounds.dk /AG_rev.html (749 words)

	Aleatory Law and Legal Definition - USlegalforms.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aleatory means dependent on chance, luck, or an uncertain outcome.
		It is usually used to refer to a type of contract in which one of the parties exposes himself to lose something which will be a profit to the other.
		Insurance contracts in which the insurer takes all the risk of the loss, and the insured pays a premium to the former for the risk which he runs are a type of aleatory contract.
	www.uslegalforms.com /lawdigest/legaldefinitions.php/aleatory.htm (179 words)

	Aleatory Alpaca Farm LLC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A total of 11 alpacas reside at Aleatory Alpaca Farm LLC.
		Aleatory Alpaca Farm LLC is a family owned and operated endeavor.
		We have been raising ARI registered Alpacas since 2000 and we have just added registered Nigerian Dwarf Goats to our farm.
	www.alpacanation.com /aleatoryalpacas.asp (141 words)

	Aleatory Compositional Techniques? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aleatory would equal writing songs by the roll of a dice.
		This can be done by using dice or logarithmic tables or flipping a coin but it can also be done by providing specific musical options to the performers or using unpredictable sound sources, such as radios.
		I would say that what Meshuggah did is more of a creative but controlled improv technique than an aleatory method because in the end, the composers (Meshuggah) still decided, for themselves, every aspect of the final product.
	www.tandjent.com /meshforum/viewtopic.php?t=9130 (1499 words)

	Tungsten74 - "Aleatory Element" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In fact, a whole range of influences can be cited to mark out the sonic territory of Aleatory Element: Captain Beefheart weirdness, early 70s krautrock experimentation ala Neu and Faust, the NYC guitar terrorism of Glen Branca, 60s psychedelia.
		The instrumentation on Aleatory Element is as varied as the music itself: in addition to the traditional setup (guitar, bass, drums, keys), banjo, theremin, accordion, recorder, and tribal percussion are employed on many of the songs, though no specific credits are given.
		Aleatory Element is distributed by Technical Echo Records.
	www.aural-innovations.com /2004/march/tungste3.html (232 words)

	ArtLex on Aleatory
		Aleatory was also employed by numerous twentieth century avant-garde artists.
		If you are about to invent some scenes, you will be able to see in it a resemblance to various different landscapes adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, with valleys and various groups of hills." Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519), Italian Renaissance artist.
		In music, the major exponent of aleatory was John Cage (American, 1912-1992), who sometimes composed by using dice, and also with a randomizing computer program.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/a/aleatory.html (730 words)

	Magazine électronique du CIAC - CIAC's Electronic Magazine
		The aleatory, however, or randomness, is but one instance from a given, circumscribed set of possibilities.
		As each participant is asked to transfer his or her own text and images and the browser acts as a fl box, the authors assume by that very fact that the outcome will be of aesthetic interest.
		The aleatory would seem to have become the bible of Net art, a mode, a commodious posture, or imposture.
	www.ciac.ca /magazine/archives/no_19/en/dossier.htm (2089 words)

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		Our hypothesis was that in an aleatory task decision makers will use a strategy based on the likelihood ratio.
		For the aleatory task participants were given prior training in observing distributions of points along a horizontal line.
		For example, participants' failure to use a likelihood ratio strategy in the aleatory task may have resulted in part from the way in which information was presented, and in part from changes in strategy over time.
	www.unc.edu /~gpitz/Bayesian.doc (2717 words)

	Limited aleatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lottery A lottery is one of the aleatory contracts and is commonly defined as a distribution of prizes by lot or by chance.
		Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract.
		It uses material from the Wiktionary page "Aleatory".
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Limited_aleatory.html (360 words)

	Qatar Law - Articles
		He stated that "There is no disagreement among Sharia Jurists on that the contract of insurance is an aleatory contract in that neither of the parties thereto knows at the time of entering into the contract how much he will pay or recover thereunder.
		According to him the gharar involved in the contract of commercial insurance is not justifiable under the veil of necessity.
		Commercial insurance carried on by insurance companies does not involve co-operation between the insurers and insured; commercial insurance is an aleatory contract and the aleatoricity involved in it is of the kind prohibited by Islamic Sharia; and commercial insurance involves a suspicion of wager, gambling and usury.
	www.qatarlaw.com /English/Articles/islam.htm (736 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Tungsten74: Aleatory Element
		With Aleatory Element, they set a pretty high threshold of tolerance for the esoteric.
		Judging purely from this disc, I'd say the tour wasn't going too well; it's easy to imagine it as a means of purging the frustration brought on by empty clubs and shitty sound systems.
		Guitar, bass, drums and synth are represented, of course, but herein, banjo, rain stick and various other sonic toys make tasteful appearances as well.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=1084875015731962 (533 words)

	Reporter-Times.Com - Word of the Day
		Example sentence: The aleatory nature of a lottery drawing makes it impossible to predict who is going to be the winner.
		Deriving from the Latin noun "alea," which refers to a kind of dice game, "aleatory" was first used in English in the late 17th century to describe things that are dependent on uncertain odds, much like a roll of the dice.
		Going a bit further, the term "aleatory music," or "chance music," describes a musical composition in which certain parts are left for the performer to concoct through improvisation.
	www.reporter-times.com /?module=displaystory&story_id=20916&format=html (206 words)

	aleatory - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about aleatory
		The use of random or chance elements in certain art forms.
		Although Leonardo da Vinci recommended looking at blotches on walls as a means of initiating artistic ideas, aleatory practice has been mainly employed by 20th-century avant-garde artists.
		In Dada, artist Hans Arp made collages by dropping small pieces of paper onto a larger piece and fixing them where they landed.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /aleatory (158 words)

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	Jonathan Goodwin » Aleatory Research
		As I drove through this area looking for a bank earlier today, I noted the following two items: there’s a commemorative plaque of a visit by Thackeray to the city in the 1850s.
		After getting an oil change, I stopped by a previously unvisited bookstore in the Chamblee area and purchased an omnibus edition of Charles Fort along with the latest Le Carré.
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	www.jgoodwin.net /index.php?cat=20 (630 words)

	aleatory_voices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		this is one of my aims for aleatory collections, the other being more in the lines of the stories we project, as you say, by the things we choose to be interested in - ie.
		it would probably be more precise to talk about aleatory collections, as playing with the notion of addressing people (and that is, i guess, a form of communication) and creating a narrative, however loose it might be.
		whatever the initial response might be, i hope that people coming this way will contribute opinions and anecdotes to aleatory voices, and by so doing create an environment that lives beyond my initiation.
	www.gold.ac.uk /visual-arts/exhibitions/aleatorycollections/guestbook/aleatory_voices.html (829 words)

	Aleatoric music : Aleatory music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Aleatoric (or aleatory) music or composition, is music where some element of the composition is left to chance.
		One of the earliest aleatoric compositions was the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Musikalisches Würfelspiel or Musical Dice Game, which consisted of a set of musical measures and a procedure for selecting them based on the throwing of a number of dice.
		It uses material from the wikipedia article Aleatoric music : Aleatory music.
	www.eurofreehost.com /al/Aleatory_music.html (352 words)

	Renaldo and Clara meet John Cage
		One way to combat all this is to cultivate an improvisatory aesthetic that evades the norms of mass-produced art by placing a romanticized emphasis on notions of spontaneity, authenticity, and individuality as pathways to artistic originality and uniqueness.
		Cage did this by developing aleatory techniques that allow chance and indeterminacy to play key roles in shaping musical results.
		In all cases, the composer seeks to bypass his own structuring ego and allow a larger system or set of systems (the ubiquity of sound, the processes of hearing and seeing, forces of synchronicity or "karma," and so forth) to take the foreground.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/5/renaldo.html (1484 words)

	aleatory music -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		He was John Cage, a minimalist and an avant-garde developer of the percussion orchestra, the prepared piano, the happening, aleatory, or chance, composition, performance art, and music as extended silence.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9005549?tocId=9005549 (835 words)

	Aleatory Allegories
		She lives in Kaneohe, Hawaii with her husband Bryant and is a lifelong fan of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team.
		Short description/annotation: If “aleatory” refers to chance happenings, and “allegory” to the symbolic renderings of stories, then the premise of Aleatory Allegories is that, in a world governed by chance, there are still stories to be told and meanings to find within the flux.
		As Schultz writes in the central long poem of this collection, “Holding Patterns,” “words are at once / leash and bungie cord, urging constancy / within risk[.]” The poems in her collection are, in equal measure, playful and thoughtful.
	www.saltpublishing.com /books/smp/1876857013.htm (508 words)

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