Re: Godel, Escher, Bach and Headrush

[Jim Coker <jcoker@magelang.com>]

That's a great idea.  I think you can
even set up a referral deal w/ amazon.com. I'd
offer to do it, but I still haven't gotten my
Kyma-looper-info doc done.

Jim

Kim Flint wrote:
> 
> 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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