Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Rob Haskins <>]

I'm sympathetic with Rod. :) It's a lot harder to write 50% or 100% mesostics, and that's what we would want a mesostic generator to produce.

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Herb Levy <> wrote:

Making some kind of distinction between a "Cagean mesostic" and some other kind of mesostic seems rather pointless to me.

The mesostic form did not exist until Cage developed it. If his rules don't matter, whose rules should?





--- On Tue, 4/9/13, Dionysis Boukouvalas <> wrote:

From: Dionysis Boukouvalas <>
Subject: [silence] RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Mesostic generator
To: "Silence" <>
Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 3:44 PM

Depends on your definition of "haiku" :-) There is of course the traditional well-defined haiku, but who forbids us from widening the concept? By the way, did Cage widen the concept of the Acrostic or not? In some ways yes, in other not.

As for what a Cagean mesostic is, I know that quite well, thank you :-) I just thought that it's not all there is to be.

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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 15:35:59 -0500
To:
Subject: [silence] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Mesostic generator

Yes, but it is NOT a haiku - that's my point.

Rod

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On apr 9, 2556 BE, at 15:24, Dionysis Boukouvalas wrote:

It does

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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 15:01:58 -0500
To: 
Subject: [silence] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Mesostic generator

They look like mesostics 

in the same way that this looks 

like a haiku.

ㄷ

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On apr 9, 2556 BE, at 10:29, Dionysis Boukouvalas wrote:

They sure look like mesostics to me. Why are you saying that they are not mesostics? I'm guessing you are referring to the mesostic rules here?

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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 09:52:26 -0500
To: 
Subject: [silence] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Mesostic generator

It's a "mesostic generator" that doesn't generate mesostics.

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On apr 9, 2556 BE, at 09:46, Dionysis Boukouvalas wrote:

Because I don't want to search it now, what exactly is the problem?

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From: 
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 09:11:48 -0500
To: 
Subject: [silence] Re: RE: Re: Re: Mesostic generator

Well, the idea is nice - and the look is attractive,

but a pretty car that doesn't work properly is

pretty much useless no matter what kinds of 

variables or, as the software creator states,

"extended features" and "additional options"

it has. I may drop the fellow a line to have him

keep me up-to-date on when he gets it working.

best,

︣

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On apr 9, 2556 BE, at 06:43, Dionysis Boukouvalas wrote:

Still nice though :-)

Well of course, a lot of variables should be available to the user, as to the exact nature of the mesostics produced.
Let's hope they get there!
(Let us know when they will.)

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From: 
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 22:29:50 -0500
To: 
Subject: [silence] Re: Re: Mesostic generator

The only real problem with the examples shown

is that they are not mesostics, so the software

needs to work. Trying John's name with the

CNN setting (and the Louis Goldstein example)  

still brings up non-mesostics as well apparently.

R

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On apr 7, 2556 BE, at 10:02, Rob Haskins wrote:

In honor of Roger Ebert, here are 10 mesostics on his name

	Rogerebert.com
m	Ovie
'	Great
movi	Es':
glossa	Ry
on	E-minute
	By
yahoo! movi	E
p	Rotagonist
s	Tumbles,
ove	R
	On
"hi	Gh
"ac	E
f	Ran
p	Elzman
	Buy
tick	Ets.
	Rss
headlines abou	T
&	Raquo; email
m	Ovie
passin	G
h	Er
c	Ritic:“i
d	Evastated
	By
th	E
oh-so-b	Rilliant
fough	T
cou	Rageous
l	Ost
hi	Ghs
th	E
humo	R,
d	Eep
a	Biding
lov	E
fo	R
movies.excep	T
fo	R
th	Ose
darin	G
dir	Ector,
o	R,
id	Eally,
	By
tattoo-spangl	Ed
th	Rough
	Tent
hund	Red
gl	Obe-shaped
ca	Ge.
	Extended
t	Racking
b	E
a	Bout
	Experience
t	Ry
	To
you	R
vacati	On,
teena	Gers
hav	E
va	Rious
th	E
a	Bout
attractiv	E
fo	R
	Twisted
a	Re
n	Othing
i	Gnatiy
vishn	Evetsky"trance",
fo	R
g	Et
a	Bramsa
romanc	E,
d	Rama,
	Tantalizes
viewe	Rs
	Open-ended
sin	Gular,
myst	Erious
fo	Rm
caus	Ed
	By
ali	Enates
f	Rom
	Them.
	Room
wh	Ole
waitin	G
b	Ehind
doo	R
th	E
ku	Brick's
"th	E
acco	Rding
	To

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Dionysis Boukouvalas <> wrote:

http://www.euph0r1a.net/mesostomatic

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Rob Haskins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Music, College of Liberal Arts
University of New Hampshire
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--
Rob Haskins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Music, College of Liberal Arts
University of New Hampshire
M-105, Paul Creative Arts Center
30 Academic Way
Durham, NH 03824
603-862-3987 (office)
603-862-3155 (fax)
<http://unh.edu/music/>
<http://robhaskins.net>
<http://musicandmiscellaneous.blogspot.com/>