pSY and Extremism Is pSY - the concept behind it or the material that it produces extreme? The answer will always depend on who is asked and, of course, their opinions. Ultimately, one could perhaps suggest that pSY is more extreme than many other things. There are many examples of other 'chaotic' music programmes, or programmes which attempt to reproduce other, pre-existing styles of music. There are other examples of algorithmic composers. In general, it would appear that some people are more interested in the extreme. Why this should be is difficult to say, just as why some people are not at all interested in the extreme. What is the extreme? I suppose that here, too, we are really talking about relativities. There is an additional difficulty here. In the majority, examples of things that have been considered extreme are usually, given time and a certain support, not considered extreme after a time. This does not just concern the arts - many scientific discoveries have been considered extreme or even revolutionary, only to be considered, given a few hundred years, common sense by many more people. To some extent, the search for 'truth' is inevitably an extreme position. There are really two attitudes towards this