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There is a long history of chance operations in the context of music and art. In the 18th century, the Musikalisches Würfelspiel, or musical dice game, used dice throws to compose pieces through a random ordering of predetermined elements. In the early 20th century, Duchamp used these games to develop his own chance music compositions, such as 1913’s Erratum […]

Liminality is an anthropological term, first coined by van Gennep in his 1909 book Rites of Passage. The word is derived from the Latin limen, which means ‘threshold’. Liminality refers to the ambivalence, confusion, or disorientation experienced in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not […]

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