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# 'aleatoric'?
You got me, Rap. 44 years on this planet, and I've never encountered that word before.
(, Tue 19 May 2009, 2:36, archived)
# by the throw of the die
as in ALEA JACTVS EST

I haven't come across it outside of chance music and art (my brother was a big Cage fan).
I can't remember what Duchamp called his chance techniques.
(, Tue 19 May 2009, 2:43, archived)
# PROBABLY SOMETHING FRENCH
 
THE GREAT SKIRT WEARING BICYCLE STEALING POUFFE
(, Tue 19 May 2009, 2:44, archived)
# Exquisite corpses?
I like to think that the musicians actually have dice alongside their instruments, on little occasional tables.
Max Ernst's A Week of Kindness is pretty sweet.
(, Tue 19 May 2009, 2:49, archived)
# Cadavre exquis was a game played by all that French lot
I was thinking of his dropping things from measured heights to create chance patterns
and such

and thank you for reminding me about Une semaine de bonté, Ernst was great.
(, Tue 19 May 2009, 3:29, archived)