The Jazz Blog - Tag - EssayDidier Verna's blog on Jazz and music in general2020-10-10T10:41:46+02:00Didier Vernaurn:md5:5758d3efb9495ffa8211bb031b6b3594DotclearLisp, Jazz, Aikido, 10 years laterurn:md5:ba8567b36040b2338ee71dbf53aad7c7Wednesday 2 May 2018Wednesday 2 May 2018Didier VernaPedagogyAestheticsAikidoEssayJazzLispPhilosophy <p>10 years ago, I published a <a href="http://www.didierverna.com/blog/index.php?post/2007/04/03/Lisp-Jazz-Aikido">short blog</a> entitled "Lisp, Jazz, Aikido", barely scratching the surface of what I found to be commonalities between the 3 disciplines. At the time, I had the intuition that those ideas were the tip of a potentially big iceberg, and I ended the blog with the following sentence: "I'd like to write a proper essay about these things when I find the time... someday."</p>
<p>Well, 10 years later, I did. The essay, which is 50 pages long, has been published in the <a href="http://programming-journal.org/2018/2/10/" hreflang="en">Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming Journal</a>, and actually received the Reviewers'Choice Award 2018. I'm not the bragging type, far from it, but I had to mention this because this essay is so personal, and I invested so much in its preparation (more than 300 hours) that I am as deeply touched by the award as I would have been hurt, had it been negatively received...</p>
<p>The live presentation has unfortunately not been recorded, but I took the time to make a screencast afterwards, which is now <a href="https://youtu.be/CbciCrQCpkI" hreflang="en">available on YouTube</a>. Just like the essay, this presentation is not in the typical setting that you'd expect at a scientific conference...</p>
<p>If you've got an artistic fiber, if you're sensitive to the aesthetic dimension in what you do, you may enjoy this work...</p>http://www.didierverna.com/blog/index.php?post/2018/05/02/Lisp%2C-Jazz%2C-Aikido%2C-10-years-later#comment-formhttp://www.didierverna.com/blog/index.php?feed/navlang:en/atom/comments/41