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Re: Detailed parameters/ Overwhelming complexity

Date1998-05-01 12:54
Fromjpff@maths.bath.ac.uk
SubjectRe: Detailed parameters/ Overwhelming complexity
Message written at 30 Apr 1998 11:04:53 +0100
In-reply-to: <001001bd737b$8910e780$cc368ed1@locarnini> (message from Ken
	Locarnini on Wed, 29 Apr 1998 07:31:40 -0700)
References:  <001001bd737b$8910e780$cc368ed1@locarnini>

Oh dear, that puts me in my place!  I only have 3 years of college
level mathematatics, but in the UK that is enough to get a degree in
the subject.  I suppose the 4 years postgraduate had some mathematics
in it, but I have not yet seen the musical application of gravity
waves or Galois theory, but no doubt my techie mind will eventually
generate the piece with frequencies derived from the gravity waves of
a rotating pulsating cylindrical star; I see the title already,
BVM. (Bondi-Van der Burg-Metzner, not a catholic message).
 I do however admit to being fluent in N programming languages where N
is a non-small integer; or at least I have been.  But there again what
I generate is not in the same class as that of the musicians I meet,
and I have met a number whose use of Csound is impressive in terms of
its output, its musicality and ability to stir emotions.  However,
there is nothing to touch the emotional appeal of things like the
Schroder-Berstein theorem,  or some of the computabilty results.

So what?  At least 2 people like the sounds I generate with Csound,
and that is sufficient for me.  To me it is emotionally charged, and
can bring tears behind closed eyelids.  I do not ask for more.  

On the other hand I do spend about 14 hrs/day in front of an array of
screens so I clearly am not alive.........
==John ffitch

PS These rambling should not be taken to mean anything -- dead men
have no feelings!