re: current reading? (OT)

[bets@she-bop.org (Betsey Biggs)]

michael, i assume you know about olivier messiaen's word with birdsong, no?
if not, look it up in a music history book, it's pretty interesting!

>> i thought it was also interesting to know
>> what others on the list were reading
>
>currently, I'm reading an old German book about birdsong. Why do birds
>sing, what is learned and what is inherited, what are the songs like, and
>what else is there to learn about it? For some reason I'm extremely
>interested in the detailed structure of birdsong, and excited about the
>possibilities of time-stretching software to reveal what would otherwise
>pass much too fast (see the May 13 entry in my MY2K online sound diary for
>an example).
>
>A few weeks ago, I read Brian Greene's book about the Superstring Theory:
>The Elegant Universe. An extremely interesting read. The one underlying
>principle of the universe really seems to be vibration, oscillation -
>waves, or perhaps, in terms of musicians, music and harmony.
>
>
>=       michael peters
>=       electronic music & strange attractors
>=       http://www.mpeters.de/mpeweb

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