Digital mantras the languages of abstract and virtual worlds

Holtzman synthesizes ideas from music, computing, art, and philosophy with biographical and historical anecdotes and a thread of mysticism to arrive at a new philosophy of creativity for the digital age.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Holtzman, Steven R.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1994.
Subjects
Computers.
Virtual reality.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessPlný text
ISBN9780262291163
Physical Description1 online zdroj (x, 321 p.) : ill. (some col.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Prelude : Jispa
  • Structures
  • Pĺaňnini
  • The circle of fifths
  • Nĺagĺarjuna
  • The second Viennese school
  • Kandisky
  • Postwar serialism
  • Chomsky
  • Coda
  • Interlude : Pokara
  • Structure manipulators
  • Calculus ratiocinator
  • "Natural language"
  • Composing machines
  • The visual world
  • The virtual world
  • Reflections
  • Interlude : a gompa
  • Vibration
  • GGDL
  • A digital aesthetic
  • Dissonance
  • Deep structure
  • Vibration
  • Postlude : Bara Lacha La.

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