i'm sensing this thread is about to descend into a maelstrom of
clashing notions of what originality is.
so before that happens, i just want to say that the whole theory about
a finite amount of melodies or whatever the fuck is fucking retarded.
FUCK!
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 02:13 PM, ..chris°° wrote:
quoted 51 lines <<Say you make a song with
> <<Say you make a song with
> the duration of one second, they I can always make a different song, I
> just make it one second longer.>>
>
> of course i was talking about DIFFERENT songs and not about the
> limitation of adding seconds to an existing song.
> and of course the song shouldn`t just be a collection of tones. at
> least it should have SOME KIND of structure/melody.
> sure you can make a track that consists of all songs you know. and you
> can still clame that it`s a new combination of tones...but i was
> talking about originality.
>
>
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> To: idm
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 8:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [idm] the end of all music?
>
>
> Quoting ..chris?? (Chris-Griffin@Web.de):
>> my brother once told me that some scientists/mathematicians calculated
>> that in some years/centuries/milleniums every single possible
>> combination of tones will be composed. has someone heard of this
>> calculation as well? when do they say will every song be written? i
>> can`t imagine what it`s like to live in a world where no new song will
>> be released. strange...
>
> Well, it's nonsense. They probably argued that the set of all songs
> is
> countably infinite, but thats still infinite. Say you make a song
> with
> the duration of one second, they I can always make a different song,
> I
> just make it one second longer.
>
> Arguably maybe there's far less melodies, however, it's going to be
> an
> awfull lot of them still...
>
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