nonist comments

• Composers often speak of fitting chords and melodies together, as though sounds were physical objects with geometric shape - and now a Princeton University musician has shown that advanced geometry actually does offer a tool for understanding musical structure: The Hidden Geometry of Musical Cords. (The thumbnail is not from here but from the gorgeous here)

• Headline: Van Gogh painted perfect turbulence The “disturbed” artist intuited the deep forms of fluid flow. Uh, yeah. No chance it’s just a coincidence huh?

• McGuffin: an object which has no real meaning except that it sets everything about it in motion. Examples.

• Only 32% of the U.S. population has ever been in a bookstore. On the average, a book store browser spends 8 seconds looking at the front cover and 15 seconds looking at the back cover. etc. Mother-load of book-related statistics. Via.

• Enjoy the Building Gods, a rough cut to the feature film about AI, robots, the singularity, and the 21st century. Via.

• African American Spirituality has taken diverse forms over the years. Much has been written about Black Churches and the African religious traditions of the diaspora. Less, however, is available on the subject of Black magical spirituality, as exemplified in Hoodoo, Conjure, Rootwork, and Candle Burning. Enter Southern Spirits: Ghostly Voices from Dixie Land.

• When the “shit comes down” will you be ready? Quote: Homesteaders, environmentalists, missionaries, doctors in developing nations, and others living in areas where there is no power can rely on Lehman’s. (Thanks Tom.)

Regarding the making graphical representations of music, i am sending you to “The Shape of Song” site” some great visuals diagrams(you can hear as well as see, and if i remember well, you can add music and see it’s diagrams forming)

http://www.turbulence.org/Works/song/mono.html

My garsh, you’ve been posting like a maniac the last couple of days. Gonna take me a while to check all this stuff out.

Although you’ve heard practically nothing of my songwriting, I have been doing it long enough to have a feel for the geometry or architecture of composition, and once you understand it reasonably well you can also deconstruct other writers’ music pretty readily. Most rock music f’rinstance is very, very modular; ah there’s a repeating series of four chords, god, he’s only using half an octave for the whole melody, that poor dear girl just sang three G-C-D songs in a row, only Van and the Stones and Bruce and old blues guys can get away with that! Another example: polka and zydeco are the SAME THING! except one’s sung in Polish and the other in Creole. There are not too many musical structures I am totally clueless about except Chinese music. I simply can’t get a handle on it.

I no! Nobody has ever actuly SEE a globble worm and yet they all scared of it! I dont belive in globble worms and I dont belive illigiteracty is a majer poblem. I thnk a majer poblem is teaching abortion in shools. I think kids shold be aborted at home in a famly atmasfear.