[net.ai] knowing who the composer is

colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (05/14/85)

["Then the world will be forced to listen to my music!"]

> If all I can discover about the composer of a piece of music is
> that it is a machine with certain characteristics, I am unlikely to
> have much empathy with the composer or its music.  My knowledge
> of the composer affects how I hear the music.
> -- 
> Gordon A. Moffett               ...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,sun}!amdahl!gam

Or perhaps how you hear the music affects what you know of the composer?
One can hardly imagine Wagner and Rossini having composed each other's
music.  Their personalities show through!
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel