aleatoric
English
Etymology
Latin āleātōrius (see aleatory) + -ic.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
aleatoric (comparative more aleatoric, superlative most aleatoric)
- Having an element of chance.
- (art, music, not comparable) Of or pertaining to works that have been produced with an element of chance (aleatoricism).
- aleatoric music
- 2005, Noël Carroll, “Formalism”, in The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, eds. Berys Gaut and Dominic McIver Lopes (Master e-book IBSN 0203991923), page 89
- Some artists, like John Cage, have adopted aleatoric methods of composition in order to remove any trace of authorial expression from their work.
See also
Further reading
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “aleatoric”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.