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01/21/12
COUNTERPOINT & PARALLEL PROCESSING?
Filed under: General
Posted by: @ 6:59 am

Why will current western culture fail to manifest
the tremendous potential of computers and
parallel processing?

Because it has lost its once highly refined discipline
and sense of the art of polyphony and counterpoint.

With musical “multitasking,” musicians learn to play and conduct
4 in the time of 5, and read the New York Times, effortlessly,
all at the same time.

But even Bach could not handle more than six voices.

Learn to first program two processors like
a 2-part Invention! The rest will take care of itself.

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