kolmogorov-music
Computational Musicology, ????, Profit
Computational Musicology, ????, Profit
"Computational musicology is broadly defined as the study of music by means of computer modelling and simulation."
Eduardo Coutinho, Marcelo Gimenes, Joao M. Martins and Eduardo R. Miranda, Computational Musicology: An Artificial Life Approach
Programming Paradigms
Charles Percy Snow
Programming Paradigms
"We would like to study Mozart’s music the way scientists analyze the spectrum of a distant star."
"Imagine formulating 'laws' for television screenplays, taking them for natural phenomenon uninfluenced by custom or constraint of commerce."
Marvin Minksy, Music, Mind and Meaning.
Air on the \G String
Johann Sebastian Bach
Analysis by Compression
David Meredith
Analysis by Compression
"I will propose that a musical analysis can be modelled as an algorithm or computer program and that the length of this algorithmic representation can be used as an indication of the quality of the analysis."
David Meredith, Analysis by Compression
The Library of Babel
Jorge Luis Borges
The Library of Babel
"Some shelf in some hexagon (men reasoned) there must exist a book which is the formula and perfect compendium of all the rest."
Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
Contact
Carl Sagan
Contact
"Natural deduction, and hence lambda calculus, should not only be known by aliens throughout our universe, but also throughout others."
"It would be a mistake to characterise lambda calculus as a universal language, because calling it universal would to too limiting."
Philip Wadler, Propositions as Types
Flutter
Autechre
Flutter
"Have a lawyer and a musicologist present at all times to confirm the non repetitive nature of the music in the event of police harassment."
Autechre, Anti EP
Blurred Lines
Robin Thicke, T.I., Pharrell Williams
Just let me liberate you You don't need no papers That man is not your mate And that's why I'm gon' take you
Conclusion
- Computational musicology
- ????
- Profit
Conclusion
- Computational musicology
- Copyright litigation
- Profit!
Conclusion
- Computational musicology can help explain music.
- Code can be interpreted in a literary mode.
- Music and literature can respond to computational ideas.