I’m a musician and a programmer so this was kind of interesting. I think there’s many ways of approaching music, and in the one for me at least, there’s a pretty clear overlap between the thought processes of these worlds. This i’s kind of out of scope (ha) for the blog. But oh well.
Though I think Jeff is wrong on one point, they have many things in common.
Instrumentalists in particular (guitar players for example) make great programmers. It’s not just about math and music being similar, or the fundamentals vs the art. Instrumentalists have to zoom in to work with very repetitive technical details, and so become very focused - like a guitar player practicing a piece of music at a slow speed.
Hey, look at that, the Woody Guthrie article is the featured article of the day over on wikipedia today, Saturday Jaunry 10th. I worked extensively on this article way back when it got promoted to featured, which is a huge headache of a process. I think it came out great, so go read it today. And congrats to all the folks who worked hard researching and maintaining this.
Tags: nerdy researchers, self onanism, wikipedia, Woody Guthrie
A Christmas Spectacular…
The Pickin’ Bubs and a bunch of special guests played at the Grafton Pub in Chicago just before Christmas. They recorded it and it came out pretty great. Check it out.
Tags: Don Weber, Marge Weber, Maria McCullough, Mark "Louie" Mitchell, Mark Dvorak, Maura Lally, Peggy Browning, Pickin' Bubs
