[F_MINOR] Music and Entertainment Technology

[Mary Jo Watts <mwatts@EDEN.RUTGERS.EDU>]

Leah--

Funny you should mention funk, PhD theses and video games in one post!
The last chapter of my dissertation discusses video game consoles
allowing "stories" to split off from CD-ROM PC technology.  I start the
dissertation with GG imagining CD-ROM-like tech (the music kit) and end
where you are--of course the I-Pod plays a role-- but that's another
story.  I think GG would certainly find video games decadent, no?  Even
the SIMS is a bit on the tropical side although I think he'd secretly
enjoy controlling a bunch of unwitting puppet-people.  Especially if his
SIM could call others in the middle of the night with good results which
mine cannot.  My vote is he'd go for the I-pod and leave the gaming
consoles behind even though he'd never given them a chance.  Although
the idea of GG partaking in a friendly game of Dance Dance Revolution
makes me LOL. Here's the quandary though-- would he BUY his downloads or
would he snitch them?  Or would he pay somebody to digitize his vinyl?
(The only LEGAL Sibelius 5th I could get was not the version I wanted
but was just over 5$.)

The funk?  Well, I won't bother you with images of me working for days
on end thru the night!  Actually I'm a great procrastinator and this
dissertation is the entire focus of my put-it-off-til-next-year skill.
It's kind of a non-take-two-ness fear.  Like if I actually put
everything down and submit it to my committee-- it's sort of like my
statement about Bach printed in vinyl (to stretch this parallel to its
limits!)

-Mary Jo

lstanwyk wrote:

> HaHaHa way too funny.  Knowing Glenn's funk is still alive and well and
> stored at the NLC is oddly reassuring. Wonder where they keep stinky hat
> and scarf? on the shelf next to the PhD theses?
> I used to collect GG vids - taped just about every t.v. program that has
> been aired about GG for the last 20 yrs., e.g., segments where Yehudi
> Menuhin is the interviewee, both arguing on the old 'recording versus
> live' debate.  I wonder, if Glenn was still alive, what he'd think of pc
> games, and the general mind-blowing advancement of AI technology in
> entertainment.  My prediction is that pc games will replace t.v. as the
> main source of entertainment in most households.  Why watch the movie
> when you can star in it, as well as control the story, in a pc game?
>
> Leah
>
> Elmer_Elevator wrote:
>
>
> > This suggests, a la Jurassic Park, that someday, someone may try to clone
> > Glenn Gould from the DNA on his funky hat and scarf. We've only just been
> > temporarily grieving. Glenn Gould may soon be back among us.
> >
> > When he's no longer decomposing, maybe he'll finally get around to
> > composing!
> >
> > Elmer
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mary Jo Watts" <mwatts@EDEN.RUTGERS.EDU>
> > To: <F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU>
> > Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 7:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: [F_MINOR] Glenn Gould Collectibles
> >
> >
> >
> > > Elmer_Elevator wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > I think I could resist all Gouldiana -- except his wonderful winter long
> > > > scarfs. Maybe he only had one. Where has it gone? I would sell my soul
> > for
> >
> >
> > > > it.
> > > This is kind of gross, but I think I remember reading somewhere or
> > > somebody told me that the librarians at the National Library of Canada
> > > had a great debate when they received GG's hat (and I think scarf).
> > > Apparently they were kind of funky-- as in they were dirty with GG's
> > > body funk. The great debate was-- should they store them as they
> > > received them or should they send them to the dry cleaners?  I think
> > > they elected to store his funk (and possibly his DNA) for posterity.
> > > Now I'm pretty sure I didn't make this story up but if I did it would
> > > make an interesting vignette for a sci-fi novel...
> > >
> > > -Mary Jo
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