A Bit of Everything: A Cherry-Picking Approach to Massively Multichannel Music Composition

This paper describes a workflow for creating massively multi-channel music, with a focus on its portability, to enable wider engagement with spatial composition. The proposition allows for the cohabitation of multiple complementary modes of encoding the space. After defining the motivations, the affordances of the setup are presented and illustrated in two pieces by the author and four other composers, successfully presented in various professional settings.