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by gardano 9y ago
Here's one thing that has bugged me for a while. Why is it said that the great red spot is around 500 years old? How do we know that it hasn't been around for much longer? Do we have before/after evidence that at one point it
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The apps are too damn big
2 points by gardano 9y ago|0 comments
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by gardano 10y ago
Folks… despite the 'dreadful' link baiting in the title, this is a pretty great article.
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by gardano 10y ago
Picture a piece for 3 players -- 2 soprano instruments and Basso Continuo (a bass instrument + let's say, harpsichord). It's a piece with a recurring harmonic structure; say, Passamezzo or ciacona -- think Pachelbel Canon. The BC
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by gardano 10y ago
No, bars were not standardised at all! One could interpret placement of barlines as something close to paragraph markers -- not all the time, but often enough that they seem to indicate specific intent.
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by gardano 10y ago
Musician checking in. Reading music in the original notation I have found to be particularly enlightening. Where the manuscript writer (or print publisher) chose to put bar lines, for instance, can give clues as to intent in performance. I&
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by gardano 10y ago
It's great for me to hear that Grendel's is still there. I used to love to go there for their Sour Cream Chocolate cake. I don't imagine Elsie's diner is there (and also Tommy's). I loved to get bagels at Elsie&#x27
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by gardano 10y ago
Wow, how is this not a thing? Great idea.
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by gardano 10y ago
I used to hang out there all the time in the '80s. My most memorable moment would have to be the time I complained to the waitress about the cockroaches that scurried from beneath my plate. Her answer? "What do you expect from a r
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by gardano 10y ago
I guess my uninformed concern is… if I write an app that has an interface that manages a device that is suddenly embroiled in a class-action lawsuit, what are the chances that I'd be sucked into that lawsuit?
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by gardano 10y ago
Are any developers avoiding working on IoT devices/interfaces because of the uncertainty regarding the security of these devices? I have no idea of the liability of developers in this space, but the fact that the question even comes up
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by gardano 10y ago
Watching this made me nostalgic for world.std.com, in Boston -- that was many folks' first dialup ISP.
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by gardano 10y ago
To be clear: It's a reed organ kit enclosed in a box that looks like a bible.
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Bible-Regal. I'd kickstart the heck out of this(youtube.com)
1 points by gardano 10y ago|1 comments
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by gardano 10y ago
Your comment brings up a good question. Would a spanish-speaker transliterate those terms into a musical context, or into a language context first, since the words themselves are pretty equivalent?
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by gardano 10y ago
I am thinking it's a question of filters. I first encountered 'despacio' in a piece of music. Now that I'm living in a spanish-speaking country, whenever I come up to that word, the first filter is that piece of music; t
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by gardano 10y ago
As a musician, I've often wondered how a performer whose native language contained such words as "allegro", "largo", "andante" interpreted those markings vs me, whose native language does not contain those
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by gardano 10y ago
It's got more to do with the tuning system. Think of it as '6 degrees of separation'. The further away I am away from the starting point, the more alien the tuning would be, and therefore the more startling the sound. During
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by gardano 10y ago
Your comment makes me think of playing catch. Do we really calculate parabolas in our brain when choosing how to catch a ball?
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by gardano 10y ago
Take a gander at an actual 17th century composer playing with that idea in a most audacious way [0]. The section of the piece I'm referring to begins around 3:26. The idea seems to be, keys that are foreign to the piece should sound
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by gardano 10y ago
Back when I was still a student (of music), I read The Inner Game of Tennis and found it to be incredibly useful! I also recommend it.
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by gardano 10y ago
I continue to be impressed by the Jazz Crusaders, with their incredible melodic/rhythmic hooks. Those are works of genius.
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by gardano 10y ago
* the Major Scale, * the Standard Chord Dictionary, and * the difference in feeling between the Major and Minor Triads. • Major scale... in what musical period? • Standard Chord Dictionary. What does that even mean?
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by gardano 10y ago
Hmmm… would you rather hear your uncle tell his joke repertoire over thanksgiving dinner, or would you rather hear Louis CK at a theatre? Music isn't just a series of clever notes, strung together. Sure, it's that too, but there&#
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by gardano 10y ago
You know -- you're right. Music is incredibly complex, and I'm so glad to have a conversation about it. Perhaps I've been too strenuous in my objections to the article, but at the same time, music to me is an intersection bet
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by gardano 10y ago
I'd argue that in baroque music, much of the notation is a scaffold upon which to build the performance. Often it's forgotten that articulation, ornamentation, and improvisation are all supposed to be assumed in baroque perf
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by gardano 10y ago
I remember the story my composition teacher told… He was at a raga concert, and admitted to feeling totally lost. As the piece progressed, about 30 minutes into the performance, everybody in the audience sighed a breath of satisfaction, and
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by gardano 10y ago
I loves me some Thielmann Susato as much as the St John Passion. Both occurred before the US Constitution and deserve to live on in our cultural memory. I couldn't agree with you more.
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by gardano 10y ago
That's a good question. In most cases, no. I'd counter that Sidney Bechet or Muddy Waters 12-bar blues can be sophisticated without being complex
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by gardano 10y ago
Take a gander at (classical Indian) Raga. It's not harmonic-centered, but it's incredibly complex.

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