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Process music is music that arises from a process. It may make that process audible to the listener , or the process may be concealed. Primarily begun in the s, diverse composers have employed divergent methods and styles of process. These processes may involve specific systems of choosing and arranging notes through pitch and time , often involving a long term change with a limited amount of musical material, or transformations of musical events that are already relatively complex in themselves. Steve Reich defines process music not as, "the process of composition but rather pieces of music that are, literally, processes. The distinctive thing about musical processes is that they determine all the note-to-note sound-to-sound details and the overall form simultaneously.