Re: (idm) Re: music/math

From terraHertz
Sent Fri, Feb 5th 1999, 19:04

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: xxxxxx@xxx-xxx-xxx.xxxxx.xx.xx (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