Free Pony Theory ~ Weekend Note (todo, scrap note, suggestion etc)

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

This thread is to support BF's weekend note.

put your
- suggestion of link, idea, etc.
- or if you have correction etc.

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must link this in next post

http://www.lostinyourinbox.blog-city.com/unanswereddesires.htm

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

This one is amazing. must listen

http://bethe.cornell.edu/

Three Lectures by Hans Bethe
IN 1999, legendary theoretical physicist Hans Bethe delivered three lectures on quantum theory to his neighbors at the Kendal of Ithaca retirement community (near Cornell University). Given by Professor Bethe at age 93, the lectures are presented here as QuickTime videos synchronized with slides of his talking points and archival material.

Intended for an audience of Professor Bethe's neighbors at Kendal, the lectures hold appeal for experts and non-experts alike. The presentation makes use of limited mathematics while focusing on the personal and historical perspectives of one of the principal architects of quantum theory whose career in physics spans 75 years.

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

http://www.princeton.edu/main/new...3C88/index.xml?section=topstories

Composer reveals musical chords' hidden geometry
by Chad Boutin · Posted July 6, 2006; 02:00 p.m.

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.

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

UPDATE (12/5/06): Scott over at Musical Perceptions found an almost-example of the last question I posed above. The piece, by Leif Inge, takes a recording of Beethoven's ninth symphony and slows it down so that the whole piece takes 24 hours. You can read about it here, and (better yet!) listen to it here.

It's really quite beautiful (I didn't listen to the whole thing). You get long, sustained major and minor chords, dissonances that last for 30 seconds. Note onsets become crescendos, and so on.

Now the question is, is this still Beethoven's ninth? If so, why? If it's not, at what point did it cease to be Beethoven's ninth? To what extent is it a composition by Leif Inge and not Beethoven?

http://ttutheory.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-is-music.html