Wow, two decades ago. I wish more old people were like him. On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM Jon Zingale <[email protected]> wrote:
> """ > > I found this entertaining, like all her videos: > > Part 6: You cannot hear radio > waves.https://youtu.be/0j4_-7rwWjE?si=9XKhErO03LQLPgvp&t=3910 > > I like the genre "noise". But some of my friends who are true fans have some > perverse tastes in music. E.g. a couple of them *hate* what they call > "noodling" ... like Joe Satriani or Yngwie Malmsteen ... mostly sounds like > they're playing scales. They argue that chords and rhythm guitar, as well as > drums, are way more interesting/entertaining to them. I find that somewhat > contradictory. It just seems like you can't really be a fan of noise without > liking noodling, at least when it's appropriate ... not gratuitous. But > apophenia's a thing. So maybe noise is an ultimate art form, where the artist > can intend anything she wants without constraining the audience in their > imputation? > > Composers *think* they're generating these things. But most mathematicians > are Platonic. Maybe the composers are actually *discovering* music as opposed > to generating it? > > """ > > Noise is so wonderful. The only genre. > Honestly the album I have listened to the most over the last 5 years: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISG4YwnikJ0 > > Lately, two other favorites: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWHLCHv4PiI > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ5ZvVZ4jWk > > The last one I learned about from Bill Lawvere when he and I had dinner in > Toronto a decade or so ago. He was telling me that when he was a kid, he > would go out into the woods with a military radio and listen to the > whistler effect. He went on to make an analogy to Rota's generalization of > mobius inversion. I thought it was really cool and so he sent me a copy of > a lecture on it that he gave the day I was born. > >
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