These procedures are a guideline which can be applied to any piece of recorded music, and in this case have been used to remix a work by Tal Klein called "why am i what i am?" These instructions were formed from that context, and the specific numbers below aren't necessarilly indicative of "Lambda Mix" procedures. More general procedures are available from Metatron Press.

"Chance operations" can be anything available, here I have used the I Ching oracle. Dice or complex random number generators could just as easilly be used.

"Lambda Mix" is copyright 1999 by Matthew Ross Davis, BMI "why am i what i am?" is copyright by Tal Klein, available at http://www.mp3.com/imnotbatman

1. Cut the piece into even (as possible) segments. The number of segments is determined by chance operations as being 13 (e.g. 17100 ms per segment).
2. Splice together a new 13-segment piece (an arbitrary length to match the length of the source - the new piece could be as long as needed by the situation) by arranging segments 1-12 accross two channels using chance operations. The 12 segments are split into left and right channels and correlated to the numbers 1-48 (two numbers per segment). Since the I Ching uses 64 hexagrams, numbers 49-64 will indicate silence.
3. After splicing, use the right channel of segment 13 to build a "ground" by stretching it to fit the approximate length of the finished piece.
4. To create the effect of variations emerging from the ground, fade each segment individually both in and out according to a predetermined function (e.g. half the length of a segment fading in, and the other half fading out). This may also be done to the ground to add a swelling effect to the overall piece. Using chance operations, decide if each segment should exist in its original form or reversed.
5. Pan the ground alternating far left and far right such that each segment will find itself attached to the ground on either side of the stereo spectrum.
6. Add a delay effect to the ground to give it an appearance of depth.