I’m just curious, after making this project shared with a few people, and was surprised how many people found the initial Simple page hard to use. I have made it much simpler since then. but I’m now curious to know how many go players have some music theory knowledge. As ik a lot of us players share background in regular or computer science
Except the poll, you can also comment about other(maybe pros) players who are musicians or knows music theories.
Your project, turning go into music, reminds me of something similar that a composer friend did about 50 years ago. He translated a pool game into music in real time, with the help of a world-famous pool trick-shot. I played in the orchestra for the world premier.
This 5d go player is a professional musician.
https://europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Player_Card.php?&key=15049650
I know a little music theory, learning some instruments as a child and coming from a musical family (my mum was an amateur cellist and pianist, sister is a professional violinist, my great aunt was the first female principal horn of a UK symphony orchestra in the 1940s), also learning music theory in the local ‘Saturday Morning Music School’, from a women with birth defects of very short arms and legs due to Thalidomide.
Andrew Kay 5d, a long-time friend and rival at the top of the British Go scene creates (or at least did) electronic music: Stream Andrew Kay music | Listen to songs, albums, playlists for free on SoundCloud.
There are strangely several bassoonists in the British Go scene, I recall they organised a bassoon quartet or quintet at some tournament.
mine isn’t an original idea for go either haha. its just the original creator made 2 videos then disappeared, and I wanted some place where I could easily do it
yup, ik. he’s a friend
that sounds like an amazing family <3
“Some”
I know Adam Neely and Rick Beato and have watched parts of an undergrad composition lecture.
What is some music theory knowledge? Could be anything between identifying the note C in violin clef or composing a fugue like Bach.
I interpreted “some” theory as: understand every symbol on a music score.
I think you know “some music theory” if you know or can figure out what is the relative minor of C.
P.S. I think you know “more than just some” music theory if you can play a Phrygian F# scale off the top of your head.
Any connection to / inspiration from this classic scene?
There’s a great (very basic) introduction to the physics and theory of music in a different part of that movie too.
Very good! I’ve never seen that before. I don’t think there is any connection, though.
Really every symbol? There are so many different scores.
I’ve never heard reading music described as “music theory.” Music theory begins with basic knowledge about harmony, usually taught in conjunction with an ear-training course.
when does one know “some” Go?
Oh hey then maybe I also know because I take music lessons on Duolingo! 
When interpreting “some music theory”, I hesitated between
But I thought that just reading music was enough to know “some” theory implicitly, just like a 15k go player who has never opened a go book can have “some” opening, life and death, and tesuji knowledge and thus has some understanding of the game.
When I said “read every music symbol”, I didn’t mean “every” in the literal sense, I know there are rare symbols that are only used for specific instruments or specific kinds of music. I was thinking of something standard like this.
I play piano and flute, and learned them almost as long as I played Go since before elementary school. Conducting for my high school bands. And later, about music information retrieval and music synthesis courses in my university and graduate school years.
Music is something taught to children at school so this should be answered positively for most of us, western players.
The poll is quite far too vaguely asking.
