Tracing Narratives - Understanding Patterns of Tension and Surprise in Music, Myth and Film

2/28/2014; 10 minutes

Explore the relation between mathematics of Information dynamics and semantic spaces to cultural practices and conventions such as the structure of a myth (monomyth), Hollywood formulas for scriptwriting and patterns of repetition and variation in musical composition and improvisation. Recorded on 02/05/2014. (#27910)

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