Comments on: Music Operates Directly On Your Abstract Syntax Tree http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/music-operates-directly-on-your-abstract-syntax-tree/ Peter Christensen's Blog Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:20:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Peter http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/music-operates-directly-on-your-abstract-syntax-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-452 Peter Sat, 10 May 2008 12:30:02 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/?p=230#comment-452 Dan: Thanks for the tip - I'll definitely check out Stuff of Thought. Right now I'm working on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/o/asin/0671657135/pchristensen-20" rel="nofollow">Society of Mind</a> by Marvin Minsky. Another book I read a while ago and enjoyed was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/o/asin/1591025117/pchristensen-20" rel="nofollow">Beyond AI</a> by J. Storrs Hall. It was a good high level overview of the history and potential of AI. I've tried Pandora and it is a pretty amazing music discovery service. Dan: Thanks for the tip – I’ll definitely check out Stuff of Thought. Right now I’m working on Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky. Another book I read a while ago and enjoyed was Beyond AI by J. Storrs Hall. It was a good high level overview of the history and potential of AI.

I’ve tried Pandora and it is a pretty amazing music discovery service.

]]> By: Daniel Weinreb http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/music-operates-directly-on-your-abstract-syntax-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-446 Daniel Weinreb Sat, 10 May 2008 11:38:30 +0000 http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/?p=230#comment-446 Peter: OK, I have just ordered a copy of "On Intelligence". May I recommend Steven Pinker's latest book, "The Stuff of Thought"? Lots of provoking ideas and tremendously fun to read. "This is Your Brain on Music" does make the point that what we listen to music for, among other things, is its emotional effect on us. I completely agree; even rather esoteric, "intellectual" stuff that I listen to is only really worth listening to because you connect to it. You can see this clearly in the work of Mike Oldfield. His first three albums (Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, and Ommadawn) are haunting and really grab you. Then after 1981 he started issuing albums again, and they just got more and more boring even though he uses a lot of the same kinds of musical patterns and techniques. You just don't care about them. If you have not yet checked out pandora.com, do try it. It's amazing how it actually manages to find music like the kind of music you like, but that you've never heard of. I was very skeptical at first and now I'm a big fan. Peter: OK, I have just ordered a copy of “On Intelligence”. May I recommend Steven Pinker’s latest book, “The Stuff of Thought”? Lots of provoking ideas and tremendously fun to read.

“This is Your Brain on Music” does make the point that what we listen to music for, among other things, is its emotional effect on us. I completely agree; even rather esoteric, “intellectual” stuff that I listen to is only really worth listening to because you connect to it. You can see this clearly in the work of Mike Oldfield. His first three albums (Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, and Ommadawn) are haunting and really grab you. Then after 1981 he started issuing albums again, and they just got more and more boring even though he uses a lot of the same kinds of musical patterns and techniques. You just don’t care about them.

If you have not yet checked out pandora.com, do try it. It’s amazing how it actually manages to find music like the kind of music you like, but that you’ve never heard of. I was very skeptical at first and now I’m a big fan.

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