Clive Thompson
Jul 18, 2023

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Aha, that comparison to music is excellent! I hadn’t thought about it before, but you’re perfectly right. Much like computer code, rnotational music is something written to communicate to the human, but also produces the music itself — even moreso when it is midi, and create some music without the need for a human player …

Glad you liked it!

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Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson

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