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Re: Godel, Escher, Bach and Headrush

At 9:16 AM -0700 6/30/99, K. Douglas Baldwin wrote:
>"Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter is profound, and should be
>required reading for serious loopers. It has it's hard-to-grasp parts, and
>as often as not you'll read with pencil and paper in hand to either try 
>one
>of the problems presented or look up a book referenced therein, but what a
>wonderful ride! I've become an amateur math addict from that book, and I
>write strict canons (looping melodies) for my guitar students partly from
>it's concepts.
>    By the way, I also picked up "The Mysticism of Sound and Music" by
>Hazrat Inayat Khan on the advice of fellow loopers recently. Excellent so
>far. For those seeking practical applications of musical instruction in
>everyday life, try "The Listening Book" by W.A. Mathieu.

people recommend books sometimes on the list, would anybody think it useful
to have some sort of "recommended reading" page on the LD website? (and
would anybody be interested in putting it together?)

kim

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