TBHWM

[Martin Bailey]

SCHRADE in Akron said:

> And will this music truly "represent" the blogger?  In any stretch of the 
> meaning?  How could it?  Different software would create different
> music with the same data.

This has always been my concern with the Lifehouse idea, since I first read about it in the mid 80s.  It's a problem of interpretation.  For example: you could either use the subject's height to define pitch, or you could use the height as the duration of a note.  Both interpretation's would give a wildly different result.

So, should Pete define the software in advance so that height equates to pitch, age to duration, etc?  Or should Pete play around with the results, trying different combinations until he ends up with something that sounds good?  Or would this be considered "cheating"?


> This is probably a bad analogy but.....can you imagine a painter who
> allows his "fans" to drop by, one by one, to add a few brush strokes to 
> his current piece?  Is it the artist's piece in the end?  Or the fans'?  Is it 
> even art?

I agree with you: that is a bad analogy!

A better analogy would be that each of the fans is a different "sitter".  Pete starts drawing a picture of, say, Keets.  After a few minutes, Keets walks off and Jim M then sits on the chair.  Pete continues to paint the same picture, but with the different sitter.

This will end up with a picture of Bruce's nose, Scott's left ear, Brian Cady's eyes, Johanna's tattoo, my hair, etc.

You ask "Is this even art?".  I think yes, this would.  Whether the picture would any good though is a different matter...

-MB



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