Brian Miller

Music theorist, teaching at UMich about computers and other things. Interested in computation, intellectual history, style, semiotics, greyhounds, and tennis

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

I’m glad to see this special issue of @ResonanceJrnl on music and cybernetics out in the world - it’s amazing to be published alongside some scholars I really admire. My contribution is a little slice of intellectual history around Leonard Meyer.

https://t.co/hGYJB7e6mi

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@isosteph @turtlekiosk isokelce would be a good account though

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@mcmansionhell Undergrad music education has a very strange relationship to "the humanities" for these kinds of reasons

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@dennismhogan @KingWenclas Yes, Ann Arbor is an unusual case because of this and Detroit's whole situation. Lawrence is well off and KU drives a lot of economic activity but nowhere near the same scale. IMO Lawrence has retained more of the freedom and quirkiness from the quoted passage bc of this

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@gabrielwinant I assume South University ave will look like the thunderdome for the rest of the week

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@BigMeanInternet That's true, I've gotten good results uploading a few related technical papers and asking about details and connections, the ability to keep asking followups is really cool. But haven't tried this with more historical materials or longer texts

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@BigMeanInternet This is a good way of putting it, my first thought was that this sounds like a lot of work when wikipedia exists. I could see this approach being useful as a way to get a sort of customized intro to a subject but not for real research

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@mcmansionhell Yeah they can stop with all this talk of phd level performance until that phd is in music theory

[Diabetic of Enlightenment @dee_of_e]

I disagree with Timothee Chalamet about opera (crowd cheers), because all art is essentially bad (crowd boos), in the Culture Industry sense! (crowd cheers) except for one medium, which encompasses all previous forms (crowd nodding expectantly), “gaming” (booing intensifies)

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@gabrielwinant I think it's also an exaggeration, I'm sure some classes were canceled but I taught that morning and all my students showed up. We started with a somber conversation about the election but still got to class material

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@gabrielwinant It took me a while to be able to get Romeo and Cesare's and Cafe Romeo straight...

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@lionel_trolling

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@no_earthquake And 2027 is like 13 months away, even the technical aspects of this won't even be remotely workable by then lmao

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@maddiewhittle I’m pretty sure this happened once with a musicology conference too, there must be a lot of furry conventions

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@dwaldenwrites The idea that this is somehow a difficult choice is comical

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@lionel_trolling I felt like I was having a stroke listening to the second half of that

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@dwaldenwrites @dvonkampen Weird to see this from anthro, which of all the social sciences typically is really good at thinking about the relationship between writing and thinking

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@ranjodhd This is always my thought when this comes up - we could make the classes hard! We want to make the classes hard! It’s not the material itself that’s stopping us

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@no_earthquake Did a baleen whale write this tweet

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

@blgtylr I’d probably injure myself but I would love to try this

[Brian Miller @bmill42]

I too would win matches against pro tennis players if they’d just stop going easy on me to get in my head

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

And yes, the competition were clearly holding back. That made it even more difficult as I had too much time to think.