Yes, very much so.
 
Was at NAMM Convention in Anaheim, CA, last weekend. Got a box series of
of DVD's all "The Art & Science of Sound Recording" by Alan Parsons of
the Alan Parsons Project (nice to encounter him again, been yonks). The 
title says it all, "art and science". Music is an art, science explains 
the mechanics of it and how it works.

Needless to say we had an interesting chat on the subject of the art and
science of it music and the art & science of the technical side it, which 
may explain predelections for the tone I have on this subject. My encounter
with him is rubbing off on my comments here. And Mr Parsons can be rather 
enlightening on the subject of the two facades of music.

Hope I'm not getting too soap-box'ish about this. Time with Mr Parsons is 
quite educational.


-Partev
(ps- and yes, ... I'm listening to some Alan Parsons Project on my laptop
at this moment. Knew someone would ask)



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--- peimankhosravi@gmail.com wrote:

From: peiman khosravi 
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Csnd] Re: Xenakis etc
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:56:36 +0100

Yes exactly. There is naturally a science of music but that doesn't
make music a science.

P

On 21 January 2011 06:27, Chuckk Hubbard  wrote:
> There is something scientific in frequency intervals, but I think the
> implication was that deciding which ones are more and less pleasant is
> still subjective.
> -Chuckk
>
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Partev Barr Sarkissian
>  wrote:
>> Pythagoras and proportions or divisions of frequency intervals
>> and how they relate to one another.
>>
>> -Partev
>>
>> ==========================================================
>>
>>
>> --- PeterArmstrong@aya.yale.edu wrote:
>>
>> From: PMA 
>> To:  csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Re: Xenakis etc
>> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:56:07 -0500
>>
>> Why all this talk of traditional music theory being somehow not
>> mathematical?
>> Aren't we simply seeing two styles of arithmetic: an older, 1-based and
>> adding
>> inclusively; and our newer, 0-based and adding exclusively?
>>
>> And of course we're uncomfortable with the old.  If there's more to it
>> than this,
>> then of course I'm missing what.
>>
>> Let's just all be glad Harmony I doesn't *add* with those Roman numerals!
>>
>>
>> Richard Dobson wrote:
>>> On 19/01/2011 00:53, Robert or Gretchen Foose wrote:
>>>> "add"..an example of operator overloading..the same as Python (et al.)
>>>> use "hot"+"dog" = "hotdog". There the '+' is used for joining two
>>>> strings. In music 'add' is a matter of combining two theoretical
>>>> structures (thirds) into one larger structure. Quite similar, but NOT
>>>> identical, to its use in math. I agree that the similarity is close
>>>> enough to be misleading, and/or confusing..but only if you expect the
>>>> two areas of knowledge to be the same.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> As a final footnote, I will "add" that I will believe it when:
>>>
>>> the standard pack of playing cards is redesigned so that the suit order
>>> is not A,2,3...10,J,Q,K  but A,1,2...9,J,Q,K. Redefining every card game
>>> on the planet is but a small price to pay!
>>>
>>>
>>> Richard Dobson
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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