SKU: HL.276515

UPC: 888680990671. 9x12 inches.

“S entences is a thirty-minute meditation, in collaboration with Adam Gopnik, on several episodes drawn from the life and work of Alan Turing. Turing lived, in a sense, many different lives, but at the heart of his work was, I think, a very musical set of anxieties. Even the idea of code-breaking is inherently musical; the French for score-reading is déchiffrage: deciphering. His wartime work on the Enigma code translated, later in life, to a more nuanced relationship to code in the form of a primitive but emotionally (and philosophically) complicated artificial intelligence. The piece uses a single voice not to speak necessarily as Turing, but as a guide through these various episodes.

I've always felt that the question of sentient computers is wildly emotional: we anthropomorphise the Mars Rover, imagining its solitude on that dusty planet. Any act of communication in which the second person is unseen can be a one-way conversation. An email, sent, can never be returned - did it arrive or did it not?, or a text message can be delivered but never read. The thrill of a fast response is immediately tempered with the harsh but empty rudeness of an out-of-office reply. Anybody who has made a condolence phone call only to hear the voice of the deceased on the outgoing answering machine message knows the complexities of what could be a simple binary communication.” –Nico Muhly.

SKU: HL.276513

UPC: 888680989774. 12x16.5 inches.

“S entences is a thirty-minute meditation, in collaboration with Adam Gopnik, on several episodes drawn from the life and work of Alan Turing. Turing lived, in a sense, many different lives, but at the heart of his work was, I think, a very musical set of anxieties. Even the idea of code-breaking is inherently musical; the French for score-reading is déchiffrage: deciphering. His wartime work on the Enigma code translated, later in life, to a more nuanced relationship to code in the form of a primitive but emotionally (and philosophically) complicated artificial intelligence. The piece uses a single voice not to speak necessarily as Turing, but as a guide through these various episodes.

I've always felt that the question of sentient computers is wildly emotional: we anthropomorphise the Mars Rover, imagining its solitude on that dusty planet. Any act of communication in which the second person is unseen can be a one-way conversation. An email, sent, can never be returned - did it arrive or did it not?-', or a text message can be delivered but never read. The thrill of a fast response is immediately tempered with the harsh but empty rudeness of an out-of-office reply. Anybody who has made a condolence phone call only to hear the voice of the deceased on the outgoing answering machine message knows the complexities of what could be a simple binary communication.” –Nico Muhly.

SKU: HL.49041713

ISBN 9783254083647. German.

Wem ist sie noch nie gestellt worden, jene beruhmte Frage nach der Musik, die man mit in die - fiktive - Gegend fern aller Zivilisation nehmen wurde? Die Wahl ist schwierig: Nach welchem Kriterium soll man seine Musik aussuchen? Nach ihrer Tiefe, ihrem emotionalen, moralischen, philosophischen Anspruch oder gar schlicht nach ihrer Dauer - hie ein Choralvorspiel von Bach, da die Matthauspassion? Soll die Musik aufheitern oder die innere Einkehr verstarken? Welche Interpretation transportiert die eigene Vorstellung am besten? Lesen Sie die Antworten prominenter Zeitgenossen, darunter Helmut Schmidt und Walter Jens, Marcel Reich-Ranicki und Gyorgy Ligeti, und stellen Sie den interessanten Vergleich mit Ihrer eigenen Entscheidung an.