So Google infiltrates yet ANOTHER aspect of the Internet. This strategy of embedding itself into the fabric of the Internet looked cute before the company went on to become the next stockmarket darling, now I can't help but see each new step in increasing its mind-share as Bill Gates in double.
This stockmarket-listed company's strategy is to 'organise the world's information'. The Internet is resembling one large Google Ad to rule them all!
Do we believe in the inherent goodness of this corporation's dollars as it buys, sponsors, advertises its way into open source?
At first I thought it was strange how classically Baroque the sample on http://tones.wolfram.com/about/how.html sounds. Not wanting to sound snobby, but the sounds being generated wouldn't sound so genuinely 'new' to someone who has listened to a number of dense notational compositions of Baroque Fugues. Then I remembered Bach was a mathematician, and some of the Fugues Baroque composers wrote can be considered mathematical excercises as much as anything.
It's thought many passages of these Fugues were written without the aid of a piano, merely working from clusters of notes and their variations. As a result they go like automata, sounding like machines set in motion that develop variations and themes, and for a lot of people are quite unlistenable. I've played a Bach Fugue and the basic technique I was taught was 'be the machine!'
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People might also be interested in a fairly extensive discussion about these issues that took place on the empyre mailing list in February.
So Google infiltrates yet ANOTHER aspect of the Internet. This strategy of embedding itself into the fabric of the Internet looked cute before the company went on to become the next stockmarket darling, now I can't help but see each new step in increasing its mind-share as Bill Gates in double.
This stockmarket-listed company's strategy is to 'organise the world's information'. The Internet is resembling one large Google Ad to rule them all!
Do we believe in the inherent goodness of this corporation's dollars as it buys, sponsors, advertises its way into open source?
At first I thought it was strange how classically Baroque the sample on http://tones.wolfram.com/about/how.html sounds. Not wanting to sound snobby, but the sounds being generated wouldn't sound so genuinely 'new' to someone who has listened to a number of dense notational compositions of Baroque Fugues. Then I remembered Bach was a mathematician, and some of the Fugues Baroque composers wrote can be considered mathematical excercises as much as anything.
It's thought many passages of these Fugues were written without the aid of a piano, merely working from clusters of notes and their variations. As a result they go like automata, sounding like machines set in motion that develop variations and themes, and for a lot of people are quite unlistenable. I've played a Bach Fugue and the basic technique I was taught was 'be the machine!'