I assigned the readings for session 7 via class emails after sessions 4 and 5, disguised as the reading for sessions 5 and 6. First up: “Trials,” Amy Dockser Marcus’ series on how a group of parents of children with Niemann-Pick type C disease tried to develop cyclodextrin as a drug for their kids. During sessions 5 and 6, none of the assignments was mentioned in class. Despite the narrowness of its wave forms and the purity of its sound—probably because of the narrowness of its wave forms and the purity of its sound—the synthesizer was electronic fingernails on the blackboard. Each asked: what if instead of asking the synthesizer to sing we ask it to keep the beat?

Source: Forbes March 04, 2017 17:37 UTC