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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Fruitful research areas - summary
Message-ID: <16758@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 26 May 90 05:00:42 GMT
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Reply-To: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
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In article <1990May25.090038.20344@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> monro_g@maths.su.oz.au () writes:
;I asked a little while ago for references to good research in the area of 
;comp.music, and also for fruitful topics for graduate students.

;                                                   There was no response 
;from one or two people who have told us at length about bad research and 
;fruitless research areas.

I assume you mean me. 


A Fruitful Research Area: There is today growing concern with the need 
  for a new information-processing metaphor, and major corporations
  are expressing interest in science-fiction author W. Gibson's concept 
  of "cyberspace," in which information is given form as a "consensual 
  hallucination" mapped out directly in the operator's mind via direct 
  brain stimulation.  The metaphor to date has been strictly visual. 
  Part I of your PhD project is to describe and implement (a simulation 
  will do) the auditory analogue of this metaphor. Justify the metaphor 
  with references to L. Beethoven, R. Wagner, J. Baudrillard, E. Bloch, 
  H.R. Jauss, U. Eco, J. Kristeva and I. Xenakis. For part II of your 
  PhD project you must write a concerto for midi piano and large orchestra 
  with concertante piano and rock percussion. You must then find an 
  orchestra, copy all of the parts and conduct it yourself.