Elonka wrote:
] ] The Secret Of Psalm 46 was first presented on 23
] March 2002
] ] at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose,
] ] California. It was accompanied by a digital video of a
] ] total solar eclipse, synchronized to a harpsichord
] ] recording of JS Bach's Art Of Fugue.
]
] Brian Moriarty is a brilliantly-gifted speaker (and a heck of
] a game designer). This talk that he gave at GDC 2002 was a
] work of art. Inspiring, moving, and thought-provoking, and I
] will never forget it. I'm glad that a transcript is on the
] web, though I don't think that reading this can even come
] close to the "performance art" that was the talk itself.
]
] I'm also meme-ing this because he spoke of some codes and
] messages hidden in music. If you're interested in
] cryptography, or conspiracies, or the history of the game
] industry, this is worth a read.

Excellent read, thank you for posting the link to the transcript! Makes me wish I had been there myself... seems almost like a GDC version of the Defcon X Richard Thieme speech, as far as sensationalism and emotional value is concerned. The bit regarding Bach's Art of Fugue was of particular interest, as one of the books I'm currently reading, "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter, goes into very appreciative detail on that acrostic.

RE: Brian Moriarty | Lectures | The Secret Of Psalm 46 (2002)