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Canteloupe
Before starting, it is probably important to stress how much making music is like hitting a canteloupe. It is a way of guessing at the content of the invisible inside — much like setting elements on fire to see their spectrum. For this reason, it is probably best to work at bit-level with a computer. […]
Figured Bass
On a small neural-network-like basis, it is possible to write a very precise kind of figured bass. The computer itself can improvise upon it, using a very limited number of input parameters (5 parameters which can be further compressed as a 16-bit byte for transmission). Usefully, in this scheme, each note is not a point […]
Neural
The peculiar thing is that harmony can be represented as a very, very small neural network based on the reconstruction of prime-numbered groups of bits.
Rectangles
The problem, from a computational perspective, is how to make music — or music notation, at least — rectangular. A problem of measurable dimensions. It’s not really possible, but it’s more possible than current systems allow. After that, it can be confronted like chess or go.
Rhyme
Online, there is a contest between rhyme and reason. Rhyme is winning, and causing falsehoods to spread.
Kolkata
Making noise online is like honking in the Kolkata (Calcutta) traffic. Not to warn others that you are there, but to prove to yourself that you exist.
Music and the idea of the invisible thing.
What I wish to keep track of is the meaning of music in digital media. The idea of what people are — indeed the idea of what things are — is shifting with media. We have long conceived who we were through print, paint, recordings, and other strange mirrors. And now data is our mirror, our […]
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