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Darlene Pringle - Google Search: Apr 12, 4:08pm 0 review music, books
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%...

robert garfias -uci - ethnomusicology: Nov 19, 2007 12:20pm 0 review music
http://aris.ss.uci.edu/rgarfias/

Robert Garfias - Ethnomusicology: Nov 18, 2007 4:39pm 0 review culture, music
https://eee.uci.edu/programs/rgarfias/

Eunice Norton on Well Tempered Clavier Book I #12, #13 | MetaFilter: Sep 23, 2007 1:45pm 1 review music
http://www.metafilter.com/64956/Eunice-Norton-on-Well-Tempered-Clavier-Book-I...; Eunice Norton on Bach's Well Tempered Clavier on Metafilter by tss
Eunice Norton (1908-2005) wiki, great-great-grandstudent of Beethoven, gives a detailed, analytical tour of Bach's Well Tempered Clavier #12 in F, Bk I part 1 part 2 part 3 and #13 in F#, Bk I part 1 part 2 in a 1989 video. Another interesting thing: Go to YouTube and search for Eunice Norton [recordings] and her discussions of Bach's WTC ## 12 and 13. She made these videos when she was 80, and she demonstrates Bach much as he likely sounded in his own time. It is quite extraordinary. She lived in Pittsburgh from about 1934 until a little after 2000. One of her teachers in the 1930s was Artur Schnabel wiki, probably the greatest pianist of the 20th century. He, through his teachers and their teachers, was a very direct link back to Beethoven, who practiced the WTC every day and considered Bach to be the master. What Norton says about Bach comes directly from Schnabel and probably comes equally directly from Beethoven. She died in 2005 but she too had a number of students who continue the link. The structure that Norton so expertly describes perhaps explains why Bach's music can transcend even... unconventional performances.. Eunice Norton on Bach's Well Tempered Clavier Great post by tss on Metafilter.

Future Hi: Evolution of human music through sexual selection part 1: Jul 18, 2007 6:52am 1 review evolution, music
http://www.futurehi.net/archives/000870.html; Evolution of human music through sexual selection via FutureHi, Miller, G. F. (2000). Evolution of human music through sexual selection. In N. L. Wallin, B. Merker, & S. Brown (Eds.), The origins of music, MIT Press
Music, like art, language, and ideology, shows the hallmarks of being a complex behavioral adaptation. It is easy and fun to learn for humans but very hard for artificial intelligence programs (suggesting that its production is objectively very complex and difficult, though seemingly effortless). It is universal across cultures and across history. It is universal across normal individuals, though with some genetic heritability in aptitude. It develops spontaneously according to a standard life-history pattern, without formal instruction or conscious awareness of its underlying principles (except for professional musicians). But music also has special features as products of sexual selection. It is spontaneously practiced and produced despite their energetic costs and lack of survival utility. Over the short term, it is used conspicuously in courtship, and its production tends to decline after mating (as Miles Davis famously observed, male musicians, like athletes, avoid having sex before important concerts, because they need the sexual u201cedgeu201d to play well). Over the life span, public music production rockets upwards after puberty, reaches its peak in young adulthood during the period of most intense courtship, and declines gradually with age and parenting demands. Musical tastes lead to strong assortative mating. Finally, music is functionally analogous to sexually-selected acoustic displays in other species. Evolution of human music through sexual selection pp. 329-360. There is no reason to doubt that music, songs, have a place in mating selection. But it seems to me that this approach does not teach us much about the beauty contained within the music of all species. In other words the fact that music is used as an unconscientious tool in the mating process does in no way explain how all species come to yearn for certain rhythms and harmonics at the exclusion of others. How come some rhythms and harmonics are being retained and others are being rejected? It seems to me that there is something deeper going on here than sexual selection. Beauty (visual, sound or other) is more like the memory of the working of reality itself (the universe or the multiverse). Beauty is a kind of form of acceptance of all the forms that have been evolutionary retained while ugliness is a kind of form of rejection of what has not been evolutionary retained (displeasing to the senses and morally revolting). Once the essence of beauty and ugliness have been so posited it becomes easier to understand how vision, sound and other perceptions are being used in different evolutionary mechanisms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWMpcm3jNTg: May 27, 2007 9:01am 1 review music, video, test
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=rvvg93rk5h

Seed: David Byrne + Daniel Levitin: May 1, 2007 7:32pm 1 review music
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/04/david_byrne_daniel_levitin.php?page=6; A Conversation Between David Byrne and Daniel Levitin in Seed Magazine, by Edit Staff,
DL: I really think that one of the ancient functions of music was for social bonding. I mean, there's a lot of evidence. If you go to current tribal communities that have been cut off from Western civilization, they use music to form community. Each tribe has its own music. The men stay up to ward off predators by singing around the campfire. Music is communal. It's almost ironic that today technology and culture have taken us to where we all have our little ear-buds and we listen to music in private, given that for tens of thousands of years, the only way music was experienced by humanity was communally. Everyone played music with each other. There wasn't a separate audience and performer. And dancing was always a part of music making. It was a big communal activity. A Conversation Between David Byrne and Daniel Levitin
Interesting conversation between artists who appreciate knowledge.

Mapping Music&&(January-February&2007): Jan 17, 2007 6:21am 3 reviews music, visualization
http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/010772.html; Mapping Music via Abbas Raza / 3QD, in Harvard Magazine by Elizabeth Gudrais
Tymoczko (pronounced tim-OSS-ko), who spent this past academic year as a composer in residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, has developed a way to represent music spatially. The system callows you to translate these half-formed intuitive understandings into very precise, clear language, says Tymoczko, an assistant professor of music at Princeton. Personally, I find that incredibly cool. So, apparently, did Science, which recently published his mathematically based exposition the only music-theory paper the journal has accepted in its 127-year history. Mapping Music Mapping music Tymoczko\u2019s website The Sound of Philosophy The Nitrous Oxide Philosopher Animation with piano GENERALIZED CHORD SPACES ChordGeometries software represents chords and voice leadings in a variety of 3D geometrical spaces. Software.

A MUST SEE AND LISTEN. Here is another visual approach towards music and sound. Read the articles and listen to this guy's compositions: Visualization of the opening of Chopin's E minor prelude with ChordGeometries software The eggman variations Piano quintet, 19' The agony of modern music. Chorus, 25' Echo code. String quartet, 27' Fools and angels. 4 singers and electronics, 18'

WolframTones: About WolframTones: Jan 13, 2007 9:57am 2 reviews music, visualization
http://tones.wolfram.com/about/; Cellular automata music via boingboing, in WolframTones
How does one take a pattern generated by a cellular automaton, and render it as music? The key idea of WolframTones is to take a swath through the pattern and tip it on its side, and treat it as a musical score. Once the cellular automaton pattern has been "tipped on its side" so that time runs across the page, the height of each black square is related to the pitch of a corresponding note. Cellular automata music Sound of an Image

Amazing is it not? We are entering a brave new world. Our reality has indeed always been a first degree experimentation: - visual through the image captured by our eye sensor - sound through the acoustic resonance captured by our ear sensor. We are now plunging into a brave new world through always higher degree experimentations of reality: - visualization of things our eyes can't see by themselves. To this day I have identified 3 approaches: .... imaging the micro (microscopes and cameras) .... imaging the macro (telescopes and cameras) .... imaging abstract complexity (statistics into graphs, networks into graphs, tagclouds, music into image, etc..) - hearing sounds our ears can't hear by themselves: .... the music of the genetic code (gene music) .... the music of images (Tim Omernick's 'Sound of Image' application ) .... the music of the computation of complexity ( wolfram's tones)

Wearable instrument shirt: guitar (Video): Nov 13, 2006 1:30pm 3 reviews music
http://www.csiro.au/csiro/content/file/pfk8,,.html; Wearable instrument shirt: guitar via Metafilter / bunglin jones, in CSIRO Online
The invisible axe. Australian scientists build a real air guitar. This 48-second video shows CSIRO's wearable instrument shirt guitar which works by recognising and interpreting arm movements and relaying this wirelessly to a computer for audio generation. View the shirt guitar.
Photo by Dr R Helmer CSIRO TFT. CSIRO air guitar in action.

Amazing video. CSIRO is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.