>So... last time I 'resubscribed' I caught the last message in a thread
>about XML & ABC.
>
>Is there talk of going in this direction? Sounds exciting.
MusicXML is an excellent medium for communicating musical notation between
programs. It can describe music in very fine detail, both the stuff
> I was referring to John Chamber's insightful discourse on the music
> industry, musicians, computer/internet developers, and the future of
> music.
Yes, John's post was excellent.. It should be "preserved". BTW, are you
the same guy who on the debian linux list? I think I've read your emails
Toby Rider wrote:
Can I repost those comments elsewhere off-list, with proper attribution
(of course)?
Which comments? Hopefully not the one about my friends having lot's of
tattos and piercings.. :-)
I've no problem with tatoos and piercings -- except that I've never felt
strongly about a
> Can I repost those comments elsewhere off-list, with proper attribution
> (of course)?
Which comments? Hopefully not the one about my friends having lot's of
tattos and piercings.. :-)
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John Chambers wrote:
(Does this qualify as sufficiently funny to be a musical joke? ;-)
It may be funny, but I don't think it's a joke. I think it falls into
the "ha ha only serious" category. There is, unfortunately, a lot of
truth in it. (I myself am a computer programmer, but I barely
Actually the "perfect pitch" joke (here in a simpler version) is
actually a joke function:
joke(X_) = Perfect pitch: the ability to throw X_ into a
dumpster without hitting the sides.
Of course: X_ is replaced by an element of the set {an accordion, a
banjo, a viola,...}
This raises the q
Zouki writes:
| In a message dated 1/30/03 131908, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|
| << I'd also like to publicly apologize to Zouki (the OP) for the flame, as
| I was having a bad day, and the OT jokester was lucky enough to be the
| target of my misery.
|
| Sorry.
| >>
|
| Good man, Chris. No offens
Toby Rider wrote:
|
| Why is it that there are so many musicians that are either computer
| people or engineers? I've been playing music of one form or another since
| I was in elementary school and I'm noticing a definate pattern here.. I
| recently spoke to some of the guys who were part of my m
In a message dated 1/30/03 131908, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I'd also like to publicly apologize to Zouki (the OP) for the flame, as
I was having a bad day, and the OT jokester was lucky enough to be the
target of my misery.
Sorry.
>>
Good man, Chris. No offense taken - my fault for not che
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:16:34AM -0800, Toby Rider wrote:
> > Toby Rider wrote:
> > (after I wrote)
> > | > I mean, we're talking about a gang of musicians. Do we really | >
> > think we can ever get any two of them to agree on anything?
> > | >
> > | > It's sorta like that old saying: If you h
OK, since it was me who derided the OP of this thread with the OT jokes,
I'd like to commend the rest of you for continuing the thread, and
leaning it back in a musical direction (although strangely keeping the
elusive subject line, making it impossible to kill the thread!).
I'd also like to publi
So... last time I 'resubscribed' I caught the last message in a thread
about XML & ABC.
Is there talk of going in this direction? Sounds exciting.
//Christian
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>
> You can add scientists and architects to that list too. It's probably
> because music is the most abstract of all the arts, like all of those
> disciplines it requires the ability to think in abstractions.
Interesting. I actually have an undergraduate degree in architecture, but
decided not
Toby Rider wrote:
> Why is it that there are so many musicians that are either computer
>people or engineers? I've been playing music of one form or another since
>I was in elementary school and I'm noticing a definate pattern here.. I
>recently spoke to some of the guys who were part of my most s
> Toby Rider wrote:
> (after I wrote)
> | > I mean, we're talking about a gang of musicians. Do we really | >
> think we can ever get any two of them to agree on anything?
> | >
> | > It's sorta like that old saying: If you have a watch, you know | >
> what time it is; if you have two watches, y
Toby Rider wrote:
(after I wrote)
| > I mean, we're talking about a gang of musicians. Do we really
| > think we can ever get any two of them to agree on anything?
| >
| > It's sorta like that old saying: If you have a watch, you know
| > what time it is; if you have two watches, you're never sur
> > I mean, we're talking about a gang of musicians. Do we really
> > think we can ever get any two of them to agree on anything?
> >
> > It's sorta like that old saying: If you have a watch, you know
> > what time it is; if you have two watches, you're never sure.
>
>
> Yup, creative people suc
From: "John Chambers"
> I mean, we're talking about a gang of musicians. Do we really
> think we can ever get any two of them to agree on anything?
That's always amused me with folk music. We can all agree we love it but
never agree on what folk music is...
Jon
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