Re: current reading? (OT)

["Larry Tremblay" <ltct@concentric.net>]

I'm familiar with Messian's work with Birdsong. Definitely
worth checking out. I have a book about Messiaen and his work
with Birdsong called "Olivier Messiaen and the Music of Time"
(1985). Interesting.

BTW, he did most of his birdsong research in the 1940's and 50's.

- Larry

> 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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