An early obsession of mine when I was first learning about music tech was a paper by Stelios Manousakis titled “Non-Standard Sound Synthesis with L-Systems,” published 2009 in Leonardo Music Journal. At the time I was a snob about making strictly “academic” electronic music (think Stockhausen or Xenakis) and viewed things like FM and subtractive as too plebian, so synthesis methods that branded themselves as “non-standard” were very alluring. If I could give my younger self some advice, I’d tell...