if you are talking about tonalities in the traditional western sense, then yes all the melodies will one day be written, if not already. but considering that nearly
all electronic listening music (idm, etc) is built alot of times on nuances in melody, the use of percusion as melody and additionally beats as intertwining which
create implied rhythms within themselves......these factors alone assure us that even if it is a calculable number (and i wouldnt think it is) it would be an absurdly
huge number, and of course as several people have mentioned "time" introduces an infinite number of possibilites. however even if you remove duration from the
equation (although duration is often just as important) youre still left with a near infinite number of possibilites. also considering the fact that there are so many
types of instruments, a song written on piano, will sound different played on a guitar, etc and on and on.........
c
..chris°° wrote:
quoted 39 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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> From: wires
> 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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