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« Reply #20 on: Jan 12, 2007, 02:32PM »
Quote from: brucejackson on Jan 12, 2007, 02:26PM
I've long noted that there seems to be some synergy between computers and music.  Most great musicians I know are at least pretty good at computers and most great computer scientisits I know are at least pretty good musicians.

Several good books on this.  My surmise as to what links tech and music together: pattern recognition.
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« Reply #21 on: Jan 12, 2007, 03:09PM »
When I began in music, school contacts assured me if I did not make it in music that I could easily make the transition to the tech world.  Prior to seminary, I did exactly that blended with a bit of customer service.  ;-)
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« Reply #22 on: Jan 15, 2007, 06:53PM »
IT and computer work does actually sound pretty entertaining...  Don't know
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« Reply #23 on: Jan 15, 2007, 08:07PM »
That's certainly ONE word to describe it...
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« Reply #24 on: Jan 15, 2007, 10:35PM »
Quote from: rlb on Jan 12, 2007, 02:32PM
Several good books on this.  My surmise as to what links tech and music together: pattern recognition.

Patience is also a big part.  The long hours musicians spend practicing require a lot of patience.  I know lots of computer science majors who lacked the patience to spend hours debugging their programs.

After going through the grider of the North Texas music program for 3 years my computer science classes seemed easy by comparison.
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« Reply #25 on: Jan 15, 2007, 10:45PM »
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That's certainly ONE word to describe it...
: i guess i haven't actually done it, so thats why it sounds fun.
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« Reply #26 on: Jan 15, 2007, 11:01PM »
Quote from: brucejackson on Jan 15, 2007, 10:35PM
After going through the grider of the North Texas music program for 3 years my computer science classes seemed easy by comparison.

I know when I switched careers years back from music to IT, it was a pleasant change to encounter problems in which I could do Thing A which would *immediately* fix Problem X.  Insta-feedback.  As opposed to composition or teaching in which I could sometimes exhaust my entire bag o' tricks and still be irrevocably stumped.

I suppose this simply indicates that I am a much better technologist than musician; quite likely so, in fact.  So while part of me still mourns that I can't conduct orchestras, teach, and write music for a living, the other, more pragmatic part of me knows that the very *last* thing the world needs is one more burned-out, low performing professor.

I know, TMI.  :-P

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