On 3/16/07, padawan12 padawan12@obiwannabe.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:54:40 -0700 shift8 shift8@digitrash.com wrote:
As Chuckk and some of the other mathematicians have said here, some esoteric pure math like operator theory subsumes the whole subject, because
Wait, what? I wish I was a mathematician. Do I come across that way? I don't know what operator theory is, but I guess if it's related to what I've said about music cognition, then I have some idea.
sound is about changes and transformations, but I wonder what other peoples top 10 'must have' concepts are. I suppose it depends on your goals, for example a lot of composers learn a disproportionate amount of stats and distributions.
I'm humbled by those guys. I borrowed an extra book from my probability teacher (since probability class at an art school is kind of tame), hoping to understand Gaussian, Poisson, etc., after seeing them in the Csound manual, but I'm kind of marooned. I've actually had some pretty heated (and useless) arguments with teachers about "form" in music. I argue that it doesn't exist, e.g. that the beginning and end don't work the same way and so form is kind of a misnomer. You never apprehend the object as a whole, because you don't know what comes next. Then again, I just apprehended that bottle of lager as a whole, so I'm not sure if I'm making much sense... Viva la dialectic.
-Chuckk