On 3/16/07, padawan12 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:56:46 -0400 > "Chuckk Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 3/16/07, padawan12 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- http://www.badmuthahubbard.com _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list