Now that's about the most unusual instrument I've seen! I just don't see how he does the fastest runs in the piece!
Hilarious! -----Original Message----- From: Gerald Guido [mailto:gerald.gu...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 9:09 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Education Well Ike, there are only 12 notes (words) in western music. Hell of a language where almost all the meaning is in the timber, cadence and inflection. Odd how something that is essentially a mathematical construct with a vocabulary of 12 words can convey nearly an infinite shades of meaning. But none the less some interpretations of even the most beautiful compositions known to humanity can still make giggle uncontrollably http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12rioESy2fg&feature=related G! On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:13 PM, s. isaac dealey <i...@turnkey.to> wrote: > > Rick Faircloth: > > I think you're right, Mark. > > > > Music, especially theory, is very logical and an lot > > like programming...just a different medium. > > > > If you get into orchestral composition, it's quite OO. ;o) > > I have a completely untested hunch that the language centers of the > brain have more growth in musicians and programmers than in the general > public. > > It seems like sheet music / music theory and coding / programming theory > both are fundamentally about the interpretation of symbols, so it seems > like language development would be the logical neurological link between > them. Friend of mine is a hardware / networking guy, but doesn't do any > programming because he says he just can't retain it. He also happens to > have a tin-ear. ;) > > I think part of the difference there may also be the ability to > visualize the model. In hardware / networking there are actual physical > objects that connect together in a particular, specific way, but with > programming (as with language), that's not the case. > > Like lines of code, words can be fit together in rather arbitrary and > novel ways. So instead of having a solid mental model of a large system, > what you have is lots of smaller mental models of an individual units in > that system (a word or a component). Instead of having solid, well-known > relationships between the units, their relationships are ambiguous and > constantly open to interpretation or redefinition. Jazz anyone? ;) > > -- > s. isaac dealey :: AutLabs > Creating meaningful employment for people with Autism > http://www.autlabs.com > ph: 817.385.0301 > > http://onTap.riaforge.org/blog > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:327641 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
