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31. August 2001
 

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Musings on Music Making and Listening: Supervisory Control and Virtual Reality
Thomas B. Sheridan
Abstract
"Information Theory, Photosynthesis and Religion" was an imaginary title used by the MIT information theorists Peter Elias and David Huffman a half century ago to deprecate efforts to generalize certain mathematical theories to just about everything. Perhaps we are guilty of doing the same, with a symposium tying supervisory control to music.  With that precautionary caveat let us consider the topics at hand:
1.  Music as Supervisory Control: a Three Level Hierarchy
1.1  The 0th level of control; biomechanics
1.2  The 1st level of supervisory control: putting the notes together
1.3  The 2nd level of supervisory control: composing and conducting the synchronization of musicians
2.  Music as Virtual Reality: the Power of Metaphor
2.1  Telepresence and virtual reality
2.2  Suppression of disbelief; music as metaphoric existence 
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