Gödel, Escher, Bach (2023)
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SKU: A0.1377044
Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,21st Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary. Score. 61 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #961650. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.1377044).I came across Douglas R. Hofstadter's book "Gödel, Escher, Bach" when I was a doctoral student at Harvard University, 1977-81. I guess I bought it because I saw the name Bach on its cover. I have to confess however that I was unable to go through it all; the Gödel theorems and others were beyond my elementary knowledge of math and science.
Early this summer I accidentally found an article in The Atlantic about a conversation between Sami Al-Suwailem and Professor Hofstadter regarding a question that the former presented to the LLM (large-language-model), ChatGPT: Why Did I Write GEB?
NB: GEB is an acronym of "Gödel, Escher, Bach."
The conversation between them about ChatGPT was hilarious; basically Hofstadter said ChatGPT is ridiculously clumsy and inept. I, on the other hand, immediately thought: wouldn't it be fun to set excerpts of the GEB text in a song cycle for tenor and piano?
I wrote to Prof. Hofstadter and he was enthusiastic about my idea of a GEB song cycle and encouraged me to go ahead.
After reading through the tome of 700-plus pages (and skimming through the "over my head" mathematical parts), I came up with eight paragraphs of texts which I set to music.
1. A Fugue is ...
2. Fishes and Scales ...
3. Bach and Cage ...
4. The Carroll Dialogue ...
5. Crab Canon ...
6. The Brain's Ants ...
7. Is 15 wondrous, or unwondrous?
8. The Origin of Life ...
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