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Digital mantras : the languages of abstract and virtual worlds / Steven R. Holtzman.
Author
Holtzman, Steven R.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994.
Description
x, 321 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
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Architecture Library - Stacks
QA76 .H2786 1994
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Computers
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Virtual reality
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Summary note
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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-315) and index.
Contents
Preface
Prelude : Jispa
Structures
Pāṇini
The circle of fifths
Nāgārjuna
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
Postlude : Bara Lacha La.
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ISBN
0262082284
9780262082280
LCCN
94009631
OCLC
30028535
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