Re: Another Hypothetical GG Question

[Pooya Woodcock <pooya@math.umd.edu>]

-> If Glenn Gould were alive today, what would his web site look like? (Come
-> on, you know he'd be on-line. <g>)

It would consist of a single grey-clad page that would be so utterly boring
that your soul would be uplifted and enlightened by its monotonicity and
uniqueness.

And just as your soul gets uplifted, a recording of "So, You Want to Write a
Fugue" plays, and you know that you are damned. Because you can't write a
fugue. The music stops, and a picture of a squirrel nibbling on a scarf
appears. Each time you move your cursor over the squirrel, you hear the
fifth clavier concerto of J.S. Bach (f moll). If you click on the squirrel,
the scarf shoots away and the third movement of Beethoven's first piano
sonata plays. The squirrel starts dancing and fades off into the background.

The little show ends with an image marked, "Presto". When you click on it, you
return to the beginning-- the grey page. Each time you do the squirrel
routine, a different combo of tocattas, goldberg variations, fugues,
concerti, etc. are played, so you never get tired the same tunes. If you
click through 49 times, or even anything 0 modulo 13, a secret performance of
Lords of Acid will be played over a psychadelic background, much to everyone's
dismay. Glenn Gould... drugs? Nah. :)

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Pooya Woodcock
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