On 3/16/07, padawan12 padawan12@obiwannabe.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:56:46 -0400 "Chuckk Hubbard" badmuthahubbard@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/16/07, padawan12 padawan12@obiwannabe.co.uk 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.
One k too many, I meant t'other Charlie :) I'm sure C.Henry once said there was something to be said for looking at operator theory, maybe I totally misunderstood because thats well beyond me.
I realized after I posted that you must have meant him, but alas I was too tipsy to respond again.
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.
Can you remember what it was? I say disproportionate, but really from ignorance
What what was? The Csound opcode? I do think of it as overkill for synthesis purposes, but people use Csound for lots of other purposes. I guess for algorithmic composition that kind of specificity is indispensible.
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...
I think beer is triangular, up to a point everything improves linearly, then it all turns to bollocks and goes downhill at roughly the same rate:)
It might have been smoother if I had distributed the beer more uniformly across the 10 minutes I took to drink it. Or I could have used a smaller hop size to get more gradual changes.
-Chuckk