Master Writer

I am very interested in vocal productions and working with vocalist, even though I'm not experiences in doing do. Because of this i've looked into lyric writing and different techniques. Although i know we covered the cut up technique in lectures, I was thinking of the more conventional techniques. Master Writer is a commercial piece of software that is designed for poetry and lyric writing. Whilst this is really a glorified thesaurus, it did make me think outside the box. If you were to use the power of a program like this, with max/msp, then instead of always writing your lyrics to a song or to the music, maybe the music could write the lyrics for you. The output of words could possibly be dependant on the speed, notes and velocity of your performance.

It is likely that in order for sentences to make sense or rhyme, it would need to work in a similar way to master writer but with algorithms in place to order verbs, nouns, adjectives and so forth. It may turn out similar to the cut up method where it may not make much sense by the end, but it would still be the result of the music writing the lyrics and not vice versa.