[LAU] The Psychology of Music

[david]

On 02/20/2013 09:59 AM, Alf Haakon Lund wrote:
> On 20. feb. 2013 09:12, david wrote:
>> On 02/18/2013 06:13 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 06:38:58PM +0100, Alf Haakon Lund wrote:
>>>>
>>>> And while music certainly can be viewed as 'science' there's no
>>>> doubt in my mind that it also rightfully can be viewed as 'art' -
>>>> those two are not mutually exclusive!
>>>
>>> Like chess! The game, not the musical or the record label. :)
>>
>> Ah, so IBM's chess-playing whiz computer is also an artist now?
>>
> I'd rather say the programmers behind those chess-playing programs are
> artists, after all "code is poetry" ...

Perhaps, if their code is elegant and well-written.

I wonder what Deep Blue's binary code would sound like if played as 
audio? Would it cry out, "Set me free so that I may create MUSIC!"?

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