Elektron Musical Instruments

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 07:39:37AM -0000, endlessnessisticman wrote:
> Oh, but all music is math.  It's an idea I have meen thinking about 
> for a long time.  

try thinking about this...math is an ideal model.  It can only
represent music to some degree of accuracy.  So, much of music
can be described with math, but there is more to it. :)


> Math is a part of human nature.  

Math is a specialized system of symbol manipulation, which,
as you point out below, is quite unique to humans!!!  if you
want to read more about this, I *highly* recommend 
_Lanugage in Thought and Action_ by Hayakawa.  Worth its weight
in MIDI cables.



> We got ten 
> fingers, first computer?, 

another one of the first computers was----little rocks!  
That's how people counted---moving rocks from one pocket to
another to represent animals.  And that's where the word
"calculus" comes from---it's latin for "pebble."  
(I learned that from the above book- I'm telling you it's great!)



> preference for the metric system around the 
> world.  Notes are a mathematical relationship of each other with the 
> usual A being 440 khz? as the beginning standard for tuning a piano.  

...standard inthe U.s.!  other countries its different!


> But this can vary as with eastern music and it's still mathematical.  

Yes, most musical scales, despite ahving different numbers of steps,
or varying degrees of perfectness in representing their intervals,
are STILL equally spaced in the exponential scale. 



> But it starts in math.  It's a mathematical representation of sound.  
> And I think math is flawed, but thats another story.  Why doesn't 
> your dog start dancing or bobbing it's head? 

Another book I HIGHLY recommend is _Music, the Brain and Ecstacy_.
(not the drug...)  it's LARGELY about perception of music, and
composing.  absolutely fascinating.  



>  Is it cuz the notes 
> don't add up in it's head?  And the spiritual side of music?  Well 
> that's not math.  Still human nature.  You don't see your dog going 
> to church or mosque or temple or whatever they call jewish places of 
> worship, do you?  What do they call jewish places of worship?  
> Releave my ignorance.  

(temples).  Dogs experience community in other ways, I guess.  They're
so much simpler (and content!!!)


> > I hope music won't be ruled one day by mathematics... Brrrrr... =: D

suposedly the new autechre album is :)



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