Digital mantras : the languages of abstract and virtual worlds / Steven R. Holtzman.

Author
Holtzman, Steven R. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994.
Description
x, 321 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

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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.
      ISBN
      • 0262082284
      • 9780262082280
      LCCN
      94009631
      OCLC
      30028535
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