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Noun: aleatoric music
  1. 20th-century music in which chance or indeterminate elements are left for the performer to realize.
    "He based his idea of structured improvisation on similar processes in the aleatoric music of composer John Cage.";
    - chance music, aleatory music

Type of: art movement, artistic movement

Encyclopedia: Aleatoric music