Music is not math. Music just 'is'. Math is an observation.
Nate
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, terraHertz wrote:
quoted 35 lines On 4 Feb 1999, little miss trinitron wrote:> On 4 Feb 1999, little miss trinitron wrote:
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> > Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:02:46 GMT
> > From: artist@sub-con-geo.demon.co.uk (little miss trinitron)
> > Subject: Re: (idm) Bola: "Soup"
> >
> > autechre last night weren't very good - clippity-clop beats, one note
> > bass, and plugin-patching unextraodinaire - mostly transparent and
> > insubstantial - about enough good material in their (very long) set
> > for a 2 minute track.. toolshed murdered them in my humble opinion..
> > and hang that blessed dj!
> >
> > motto for today - music is not mathematics!
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> Music IS mathematics to me, I think music is a billion trillion equations
> with just a smattering of random number generators feeding values to the
> equations, which would be things like the weather, or your mood, or
> relative degree of intoxication -- whatever influences your songwriting
> process.
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> i'm not saying autechre couldn't have been boring. most likely they just
> needed more equations.
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> face it, if you use any kind of sequencer, your music CAN be transcribed
> into an equation.
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> Nick
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> the future: www.noisemusic.org/it -- sounds like: www.gl.umbc.edu/~nworth1
> the shaman McKenna breaks shiat down: www.levity.com/eschaton/novelty.html
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