aestetix wrote:
] 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.

I agree, Richard Thieme Rocks. :) Both he and Moriarty (and Jonathan Baron, if you've ever heard him speak) are in that revered category of speaker, where if I see their names on a program, no matter what it is that they're talking about, I'm going to go listen to them. Because no matter what subject they choose in any particular year, I know that their material is going to be well-researched, that they're going to speak with passion, and that I and most of the rest of the audience are probably going to walk away with an emotional afterglow of "Wow!"

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