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aleatoric

Each song is comprised of a handful of carefully-considered, adventurous, yet simple riffs and basslines, ... feedback and aleatoric noise elements. Link

One of the earliest aleatoric compositions was the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Musikalisches Würfelspiel or Musical Dice Game, which consisted of a set of musical measures and a procedure for selecting them based on the throwing of a number of dice. Link

When experts opine upon the uncertainty of a parameter value, both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties are introduced and must be modeled appropriately. Link

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