Event generators are used to represent the common structures of the musical vocabulary such as chords, ostinati, or compositional algorithms.
Perhaps to save space, harmonies are often notated as chords with a noncommittal arpeggio sign rather than expressed as detailed figurations.
The special quality of these chords is not so much that they offer a variety of meanings between which it is difficult to choose.
In fact the thirty-four chords, in conjunction with the theatrical absence, can be used to elide or avoid all the opera's critical questions.
We have nothing dramatic or operatic on which to hang the chords.
The waveform diagram displays the contrast between spatially extended, sustained dissonant chords and sharply articulated, strongly localised (on the left) dynamic peaks of the percussion.
Traditional staff notation is better suited to the illustration of such aspects as melody, rhythm, chords, dynamics and articulations.
How many previously played chords must be considered to predict the current one?
