Comments for DAN JACOB WALLACE

Comment on Music and Emotion; Or: I’m Not Crying, My Eyes Are Just Very Sensitive to the Air, the Molecules of Which Have Been Even Further Stimulated by That Cello by In response to LeeroyJenkins – where’s your backup?

In response to LeeroyJenkins – where’s your backup? — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:04:49 +0000

[...] fact, the strongest overtones of a single note spell out a major chord).’ (Dan Jacob Wallace, http://www.danjacobwallace.com/music-and-emotion/). Therefore even on a basic level dissonance is absolutely necessary for the existence of [...]

Comment on American Irony by trevor artingstoll

trevor artingstoll — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:48:17 +0000

Did this insight come to you when prone or supine,Stephen?

Comment on Update: Lanier, Jodorowsky, de Beauvoir, Airbender, et al. by Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget, Part II: Bachelardian Neoteny | DAN JACOB WALLACE

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:56:21 +0000

[...] week, I explored some of my reactions to the first half of Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (originally published in [...]

Comment on Radiolab, Stravinsky, Perfect Pitch, Dissonance by Musical Innovation and Progress; Or: On the Meaning and Implications of Musical Change | DAN JACOB WALLACE

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:11:50 +0000

[...] Today I happened to notice something I wrote back in 2010 at the end of a post about perfect pitch: [...]

Comment on Radiolab, Stravinsky, Perfect Pitch, Dissonance by Musical Innovation and Progress | DAN WALLACE MUSIC

Musical Innovation and Progress | DAN WALLACE MUSIC — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:02:12 +0000

[...] Today I happened to notice something I wrote back in 2010 at the end of a post about perfect pitch: [...]

Comment on Update: Lanier, Jodorowsky, de Beauvoir, Airbender, et al. by Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget, Part II: Bachelardian Neoteny | DAN WALLACE MUSIC

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:58:37 +0000

[...] week, I explored some of my reactions to the first half of Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (originally published in [...]

Comment on Dear Hecklers and Haters: Your Folly’s Not Funny by WHAT NOT TO DO? Heckler for hire | LOOKING FOR DRAMA

WHAT NOT TO DO? Heckler for hire | LOOKING FOR DRAMA — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:06:22 +0000

[...] there for him/her, or is he/she there for us, the audience? Is heckling outright wrong? Click here for a view. But was this man a ‘performer’? In a world saturated with publicity, to [...]

Comment on Fell (For Two Musicians and a Computer) + Damn Dirty Hippies by Dan

Dan — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:30:35 +0000

Hi Greg – Thanks! Hope you’re doing great as well.

Comment on Fell (For Two Musicians and a Computer) + Damn Dirty Hippies by Greg Maddox

Greg Maddox — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:13:21 +0000

Dan this is great work! I hope you’re doing great!

Comment on The Question Intelligent Design Can’t Answer by Dan

Dan — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:20:55 +0000

Hi Steve, thanks for your comments and for breaking down the relationship between the propositions in the dichotomy. I wish more people would study rhetoric and logic at least a little, not just so that they could better engage in rational discourse and not be as easily manipulated by rhetoric, but also in order to be more aware of the limits of rationality. I actually would love to see it taught in public secondary schools, or to even younger students.