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The duration of a whole sound event is determined by the total number n of
configurations
c, c 1, c 2 .... , c n,
and the duration of the individual granules; for
example, 100 configurations of granules of 40 milliseconds would result in a
sound event of 4 seconds' duration.
In order to operate the system, the user specifies beforehand the dimension
of the grid, the number of oscillators, the allocation of cells to oscillators, the fre-
quencies associated with the states, the duration of the granules, and the param-
eters of ChaOs. These parameters are the number of states in