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...that people are about much more accurately--and of course, movingly--than any social scientist can hope to, if he wishes to remain a professional. The terrifying reality of The Children Sanchez lies in the essential identity these people and oneself; like occasional other human documents, it strikes a chord deep inside one, a chord that sounds even through any academic fiddling one performs in order to keep control...
...numbers." Others have also noted the persistent relationship between music and math-between pure science and pure art. Barbaud himself began speculating on the musical potential of computers after reading that Haydn leaned heavily on the laws of probability and sometimes rolled dice to make a choice among possible chord and key combinations. Every type of music, Barbaud decided, must have its own laws, all equally rigid and equally mechanical. If a machine could be made to follow the rules, he reasoned, it could write music. Given proper orders, Barbaud concluded, a machine might even put together a Beethoven Tenth...
Borrowed from France's biggest calculator manufacturer, it was "instructed" by Barbaud and his friend Blanchard in theory, harmonics and chromatics-i.e., they crammed the circuits of its electronic memory with all the knowledge necessary for composition. Now Gamma knows the mathematical rules by which chords are combined into musical compositions. It understands only a vocabulary of numbers and letters, so all the essentials must first be fitted with a coded description. Fed with the necessary information, and given instructions relating to the key of the composition, its length, and the number of instruments, Gamma Three then attacks...
...Trane have played. Without being able to pin it down, I think that Miles has added a totally new dimension, a new esthetic if you will, to improvising. Part of the novelty seems to reside in a cultivation of sound and of melody virtually unfettered by rigid adherence to chord changes, a sort of metaphysical depth. I recommend all of his Columbia LP's without hesitation, except the new two volume set recorded at the Black Hawk. Judging from recent in-person appearances, I think we can safely say that his next record will easily cut that...
...peerless moments out of his well-coached squad. Diffusa Est Gratia by Nanino approached a plane of spiritual majesty, especially during those exquisite final measures which required impressive breath control. In addition, Milhaud's setting of the twenty-first psalm was presented splendidly, in spite of its truly difficult chord patterns...