Music that upsets expectations is what makes your gray matter sing
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Has anyone played with http://brainpaint.com/ ? Generates fractals from brainwaves for "therapy".
"Gordon Pask developed musical cybernetic systems that count as early
cyborg hybrids. His 1953 Musicolour machine accompanied musical
performers. As the performer or group played, Musicolour responded with
lights and movement to the music would change, creating a sort of
hypnotic effect for those who played with it. But if the performer
became too repetitive and did not engage the machine enough, Musicolour
would grow bored and stop responding—the first cybernetic art system to
do so. [4] Pask also noted that while people trained the machine, it
trained them back, creating a feedback loop in which performers felt
like the machine was an extension of their minds and bodies.[5]"
[4] Gordon Pask, “A Comment, a Case History and a Plan,” in Cybernetics, Art, and Ideas, ed. Jasia Reichardt (Greenwich, Conn.,: New York Graphic Society, 1971), 77.[5] Ibid., 85.
I've been out of the music theory game for a while, so I don't know if anyone's doing much with the I-R model anymore, but it's a fascinating approach to music analysis.
Too right, too right.
Well, that notation-jargon is still not real theory, and this stuff from the nautil.us link here is. This is the stuff to understand if you want to understand music.
Then I did a network trace on desktop and see that the header PNG image is 1 megabyte. The whole page with all those SoundCloud iframes are a whopping 9 megabytes. Ugh.