serialism

This can happen when the data is big and the computation has unavoidable serialism in each part of the computation.

Atonal music / serialism is insufferable pretentious bs that no one has ever listened to with pleasure, ever.

You are however right that Schoenberg assumed 12 tone serialism implies some form of atonality, which is incorrect.

There's an argument that serialism forces composers to use those operations instead of falling back towards conventional theory.

Saying there's nothing you can't do in serialism you can't do in free atonality seems unfair.

There's also the academic musical equivalent - music professors using stock faddy techniques like serialism or (currently) number and group theory.

And music from horror movies and battle scenes if you want to hear the contemporary influence of serialism and new complexity.

It seems like for a minor subset of free atonal compositions serialism is the natural structure of this kind of music.

It didn't take long for serial composers to start mining serialism for tonal elements.

There were strong links and crossovers between jazz and classical music until serialism happened.

An unexpected trip into combinatorics, serialism, English religious practices, drunken revelry, and home exercise equipment.

If you follow the rules, then it is also 12-tone serialism.

I mostly listen to minimalism but I wouldn't call 12-tone/serialism "dire." Like all periods, there's good and bad.

Besides all of this, traditional music theory teaching focuses too much on serialism as a "technique" and not enough as a "structure", which was the main point of Schoenberg.

"Serialism, as practiced by the big three, represented in part a rejection of harmonic variation and a renewed focus on counterpoint instead of harmony" This is true, specially in Webern's compositions.

For people who are not aware, "functional harmony" means the extended system of tonal harmony that you hear in basically almost all music apart from a very few exceptions (eg free atonality, serialism etc but there aren't many compared to the very large amount of functional harmony out there).

Serialism is less fully-developed and lacks the deep cultural background of tonal music, but it's not entirely arbitrary either.

Serialism got all the academic and theoretical attention, and many mediocre composers with a theoretical bent worked in it, and a few great composers like Stravinsky and Shostakovitch, but it's hardly all the art music that was being composed.