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From: anderson@uwvax.ARPA
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Subject: Lots of musicians in CS?
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Date: Mon, 28-May-84 17:36:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 28 17:36:55 1984
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I would agree with Dan Laliberte that people who have high
energy and talent levels tend to be good at several things, and that
this may account for the fact that in professional areas like math,
comp sci, law, etc. there seem to be more musicians than in the
population as a whole.

I have also noticed that among math/CS musicians, there are two camps:
those who view music as being complementary to math/CS, and those
who view it as being strongly interconnected.  Here Dan is of the
former group and I am of the latter.  In college I really got into
musical analysis (counterpoint, harmonic, structural, Schenker voice-
leading stuff, etc.) as well musical acoustics.  This has influenced
my piano playing quite a bit, and it has also merged with my CS interests.
I am working on (among other things) programming languages for
expressing musical interpretations and composition algorithms.

On the minus side, I feel that I have payed a price for my extreme
intellectualization of music: try as I might, I can't get anywhere
with either improvisation or composition, even though I have strong
desires to do so.  It doesn't affect listening to music, though...
that's still a non-intellectual experience.

David Anderson (uwvax!anderson)