Both of you (!): read Douglas Hoffstader's "Godel, Escher, Bach" if you haven't
already. Quite dated but intriguing look at the math/music argument...
lazlo
"Nate Harrison [Toshok Laboratories]" wrote:
quoted 77 lines Hey terra> Hey terra
>
> don't be a jerk
>
> just trying to add another side
>
> you can read all the reports you want
>
> meanwhile I'm listening to beautiful music made by people thousands of
> years ago who had no concept of calculus...er wait I'm listening to Black
> Dog:)
>
> peace
>
> Nate
>
> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, terraHertz wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Nate Harrison [Toshok Laboratories] wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Music is not math. Music just 'is'. Math is an observation.
> > >
> > > Nate
> > >
> > guess you didn't see the "TO ME" after the "music is math" i wrote. you
> > believe music just is, and obviously we'd have a dull list if no one
> > disagreed. but i've heard report afer report of child music prodigies
> > that can also do grad school-level calculus. figure that out, Toshok
> > Laboratories Man.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, terraHertz wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 4 Feb 1999, little miss trinitron wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > 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!
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> > > >
> > > > i'm not saying autechre couldn't have been boring. most likely they just
> > > > needed more equations.
> > > >
> > > > face it, if you use any kind of sequencer, your music CAN be transcribed
> > > > into an equation.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Nick
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >