Monthly Archives: September 2009
Mozart and Art
I went to a Mozart concert by Orchestra Nova today. The pieces played were: 1. Violin concerto 3 2. 3 German dances 3. Symphony No. 40 As good as the 3 pieces are, Symphony 40 would be instinctively likable because its main theme is a well known tune. The second movement of the symphony was [...]
A bouquet of anarchy
The inspiration for this would be evident to those who like graffiti art.
GEB
After days of diligent pouring, I have finally waded across 750 pages of paradoxes, logic, philosophy, mathematics, painting, music, and computation and crossed the checkered flag signaling the end of Hofstadter’s ‘Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.’ Why, you might ask, is this important? Well, in the field of ‘intelligent, thought provoking books’, GEB [...]