Yeah. I think GG & MM were colleagues at the university. Reportedly
they did meet, but if they really communicated is uncertain:
"But above all, I think 90% of Gould's importance in the world is as
a great pianist, and we must try not to explain him too much. This
tendency apparently reached i
hi;
I guess we can call McLuhan a Torontonian; he did however grow up in
Winnipeg, attending Gladstone School and getting his undergrad degree
from the University of Manitoba. ;->
-Bill in Winnipeg
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[In a recent article of the German Telepolis Magazine [1], I found
a link to the following article, written by an academic at the Naval
War College, titled "Feral Cities". I had to look up the term "feral"
which appears to mean wild, in the sense of no longer domesticated.
[1] http://www.heise.de/t
Glenn Gould's thoughts on "The Prospects of Recording" (1966) are
very relevant for today's discussion about automated, sampled,
networked music - and culture in general, I believe:
"I predicted that the public concert as we know it today would no
longer exist a century hence, that its functio
