http://bigumuse.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/103/ A geek, her blog, and the internet. Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:24:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://bigumuse.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/103/#comment-117 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:57:00 +0000 http://bigumuse.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/103#comment-117 Neither. Let me get some more finished. I’ll probably put a link up.

]]> http://bigumuse.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/103/#comment-116 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:53:00 +0000 http://bigumuse.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/103#comment-116 Wow– interesting. Is it tonal, or is more like a soundscape?

]]> http://bigumuse.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/103/#comment-115 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:12:00 +0000 http://bigumuse.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/103#comment-115 Neither! I’m using csound and some software (really a library of lisp functions) my chair wrote. It’s all computer-generated sound.

]]> http://bigumuse.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/103/#comment-114 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:54:00 +0000 http://bigumuse.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/103#comment-114 And it’s based on the rosary? Is it instrumental or are the vocal parts as well?

]]> http://bigumuse.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/103/#comment-113 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:18:00 +0000 http://bigumuse.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/103#comment-113 The dissertation meter’s in seconds. It shows how much I’ve written, and how much (projected) I have to go. I’m assuming 300 seconds (5 minutes) per piece, and the entire thing’s made up of 15 pieces.

]]> http://bigumuse.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/103/#comment-112 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:49:00 +0000 http://bigumuse.wordpress.com/2007/03/16/103#comment-112 I’m very unfamiliar with the academic composer scene, but I know the academic poetry scene, so I understand the whole pissing contest thing…I’m lucky that in my field (medieval history) the whole religious thing doesn’t seem to be a big issue, as long as you don’t approach your work as apologetics. By the way, what does the dissertation meter represent?

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