From Aetehraplst Sent Thu, Jun 10th 1999, 01:24
From Aetehraplst Sent Thu, Jun 10th 1999, 01:24
> A thought: If you gave one hundred monkeys MPC-3000s and let them loose
> for an infinite amount of time, they would eventually come up with
> nothing whatsoever at all, whereas you could give them Oberheim
> Matrix-12s and they would come up with all sorts of great shit.
> > While I love the sound of a good Oberheim, I'd take the MPC-3000
material
> > over the Oberheim material in a second. Without question. But are
they
> > "mad" monkeys? Or, is Peter Naismith among them?
>
> No, they are new world monkeys equipped with prehensile tails, giving
> each of them the ability to manipulate one more slider in real-time than
> Autechre can.
well, assuming the monkeys don't die after their normal lifespan, and they
accomplish "infinite" time, wouldn't they eventually make/find every audio
possibility?
now, if there were "infinite" monkeys as well, they could do it all
instantaneously...
disclaimer:
Here at the IDM-List School of Theoretical Physics, etc etc
hmm..
-derek
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