[LGM] Leipzig, LGM, and Bach

[Dave Crossland]

Hi

Behdad made a nice write up of the performance at ATypI that Werner
Lemberg, Frank Blokland and I did at ATypI - which was about this :)

I wonder if Frank can upload the PDFs to speakerdeck.com ? :)

https://plus.google.com/101954301592887342839/posts/9cFxRGw4hDY

On 27 November 2013 12:20, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> Not really OT.
>
> Something I ran across recently, though I'm sure Leipzigers are fully
> aware of, is Bach's Verschiedene Canones Über die ersten acht
> Fundamental Noten vorheriger Arie (BWV 1087) -- 14 Canons on a Goldberg
> Ground.
>
> The pertinent issue here is how this represents Bach's invention of
> musical notation programming or scripting, as shown in this video:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_3889082931&feature=iv&src_vid=8nIqjXh1xgE&v=6h6AabkLvEE
>
> Back in the 18th century, Bach was using an algorithmic approach! Using
> old "code" in future works!
>
> Perhaps we can find a way to bring Bach to LGM since we've already
> arranged to bring LGM to Bach.
>
> Greg
> _______________________________________________
> Libre-graphics-meeting mailing list
> Libre-graphics-meeting at lists.freedesktop.org
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-graphics-meeting



-- 
Cheers
Dave