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 Bayes Poison  

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  • Date - 2008-2009
  • Dur -17'
  • Inst - mezzo-soprano, cello, piano, percussion
  • Premier - Feb. 14, 2009: Midwest Composers Symposium; Stamps Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Monica Sciaky, voice; Pia Greiner, cello; Jonathan Lubin, piano; Scott Verduin, percussion.
 

Facts:

  • People want to sell you things.
  • These people send you emails.
  • They use certain words: “Enlarge,” “Buy,” “Click.”
  • The warders of your email use Bayesian filters to quarantine these spam messages.
  • The spammers circumvent (i.e., “poison”) Bayes filters by adding randomly-generated phrases to their pitches.
  • Randomly-generated phrases, at times, take on a poetic tenor.
  • Poetry lends itself to musical setting.

Result:

  • Music.

 

  
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Monica Sciaky, voice; Pia Greiner, cello; Jonathan Lubin, piano; Scott Verduin, percussion; Ann Arbor, MI.
   
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