hapticity » death http://hapticity.net Wed, 16 May 2012 14:41:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 #/?v=3.5.1 A great light has gone out. /2011/10/06/a-great-light-has-gone-out/ /2011/10/06/a-great-light-has-gone-out/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:41:20 +0000 Dave /?p=4318
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

ADDED: I’m reminded of this quote by Picasso – it describes Jobs just as well:

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

]]> /2011/10/06/a-great-light-has-gone-out/feed/ 0 “He imagined and created his own magical world and first built the essential concepts and tools that allowed us all to do the same.” /2011/05/11/he-imagined-and-created-his-own-magical-world-and-first-built-the-essential-concepts-and-tools-that-allowed-us-all-to-do-the-same/ /2011/05/11/he-imagined-and-created-his-own-magical-world-and-first-built-the-essential-concepts-and-tools-that-allowed-us-all-to-do-the-same/#comments Thu, 12 May 2011 02:07:57 +0000 Dave /?p=4214 Max Mathews, electronic music pioneer, has died.

Though computer music is at the edge of the avant-garde today, its roots go back to 1957, when Mathews wrote the first version of “Music,” a program that allowed an IBM 704 mainframe computer to play a 17-second composition. He quickly realized, as he put it in a 1963 article in Science, “There are no theoretical limits to the performance of the computer as a source of musical sounds.”

Rest in peace, Max.

UPDATE: I haven’t updated this blog in a while, and I realized after posting this that my previous post was about the 2010 Modulations concert. Max Mathews played at Modulations too, and that was the last time I saw him.

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