Nick -
I know the relevant portions from GBG,
and I think the most important link
that Hesse made was with I Ching,
a Chinese system of divination.
I have been studying this for some
time now.
your archive message seems like a bibliography
or list of something. i couldn't understand it
completely.
- F
On 6/6/06, Nick Collins <nc272_at_cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> on GBG see my post of 29/9/05 (enclosed below)
>
> Alex, do we have a livecode archive online anywhere? Couldn't find one
> from
> toplap site or Google...
>
> best
> N
>
>
>
> out of curiosity, has anyone else read Hermann Hesse's Glass Bead Game
> book
> recently, interpreting it in the light of live coding?
>
> Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game, Vintage: London 2000 translated by
> Richard and Clara Winston.
>
> P23 GBG as live coding, description of the game
>
> From stringing beads on wire to represent musical notation, 'was taken
> over by mathematicians.'
>
> P23-4 'the players, mutually elaborating these processes, threw these
> abstract formulas at one another, displaying the sequences and
> possibilities of their science.'
>
> Mnemonists spoil the game
> P70 'talent without character, virtuosity without values'
> introduce contemplation (spirituality)
>
> Physicalist position p81 'someone who can read notes but has no command
> of my instrument should not join in the dialogue on music.'
>
> A public essay on algorithm. A disputation/dialectic.
> P101, doubt of game. 'It would be better not to play this Game, but to
> occupy oneself with uncontaminated mathematics and good music.'
>
>
>
>
> --On 6 June 2006 14:04:12 +0400 DJ Fadereu <fadereu_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You know where I think this is going?
> > Hermanne Hesse's Glass Bead Game.
> >
> > I'm sure at least three-four people from
> > this gang must have read that book.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_bead_game
> >
> > I think what we are probably creating is a
> > game-as-interface. The GBG is the ultimate game,
> > the summation of all sciences and arts.
> >
> > - F
> >
> >
> > On 6/6/06, Arthur Clay <tonetext_at_bluewin.ch> wrote:
> >
> > yes, outside of live-coding itself, which does not really
> > exist, because think + type + compile + run is a not real time
> > sport, really. often i think, it might be better to term it
> > a new form interfacing.
> >
> > tt
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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