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From: janney@unm-cvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Lots of musicians in CS?
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Date: Tue, 29-May-84 03:57:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 29 03:57:59 1984
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I talked today with an acquaintance of mine who is primarily a composer
but who also plays with computers, and he mentioned that he cannot work
on a musical composition and a computer program at the same time.  He
very definitely feels that the same part of the brain is used in both
tasks.

There may be a difference between composing/analysing music and performing
it.  Certainly the physical coordination involved in performing is not
used in composing.

Jim Janney
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