From Kevin Burns

At 11:21 AM 4/2/2005, Kevin J. Burns wrote:

Hi Shlomo:
THE BLOG
Thanks for including me! I've never blogged before so I'm looking forward to seeing how it works! You have a comprehensive reading list and it looks like a stimulating seminar. FYI, two easy-reading but insightful (I think) books that I've found on the subject of narrative are:
Steven Brams, (2003), "Biblical Games: Game Theory and the Hebrew Bible"
(MIT Press).
John Allen Paulos, (1998), "Once Upon a Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic of Stories" (Basic Books).
On the topic of "computational aesthetics", one guy I didn't see on your reading list (maybe on purpose?) was Michael Leyton at Rutgers:
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mleyton/homepage.htm. His thing is "process grammars" (much like Stiny) and he runs the "International Society for Mathematical and Computational Aesthetics":
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mleyton/ISMA.htm A paper is titled, "Musical
Works are Maximal Memory Stores":
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mleyton/music_theory4.pdf