tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post1947793382838713491..comments2023-11-03T09:05:31.265-04:00Comments on Soho the Dog: Design for LivingMatthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10936327293692397100noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post-72981036935390237542009-01-19T13:04:00.000-05:002009-01-19T13:04:00.000-05:00Snakes started it all by hissingwhich led to growl...Snakes started it all by hissing<BR/>which led to growling<BR/>and barking <BR/>and leading inevitably to<BR/>Luci <BR/><BR/>and Aretha<BR/><BR/>It's all about defending your territory.Lane Savanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08678485361119088480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post-49631614296790216622009-01-17T22:00:00.000-05:002009-01-17T22:00:00.000-05:00Rick: But, of course, there are those listeners—fe...Rick: But, of course, there are those listeners—fewer in number, but there—for whom the connection between a seemingly unselected style and their own cultural experience nevertheless remain more than tenuous. I think the point is that the fundamental nature of music has the tendency, in the listener, to trump even the most explicitly deterministic design.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10936327293692397100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post-43646554810986553962009-01-16T12:26:00.000-05:002009-01-16T12:26:00.000-05:00Nature's big trick was to event the neuron network...Nature's big trick was to event the neuron network. H. sapiens' big trick is to use music for seduction. But these are hardly subjects of the same study. Why should the simple dogma apply without qualification to so different a physical process?<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile the comparison is instructive. With neurons, life cast a wide net and caught humanity. With language and its cousin music, humanity casts a wide net and catches culture. In both cases there's a predictable flowering of variety, and much waste. (Back in the day I knew some serialist babes ....)<BR/><BR/>Only a small number of compositions become core to this process. Those are like the neurons of culture. The rest are serialisms -- trials that don't endure because their connections are tenuous.Rick Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11996647548366503742noreply@blogger.com