Bøger af David Cope

This novel was created by computer software called ALMA for Artificial Linguistic Machine Algorithm programmed by David Cope in 2019 and described in detail in his book The Creative Machine (2020). ALMA is capable of producing over 2,432,902,008,176,640,000(or two-and-a-half quintillion) other novels without human intervention except initiating the software to do so (usually takes less than a half-second per book). This is the first novel to be thus created (apologies for the occasional lack of punctuation marks and capitalizations). For those expecting a hundred-thousand-word first attempt, I mention Hemmingway's The Old Man and the Sea (winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1953) as example of a short masterpiece: barely twenty-seven-thousand words while this book is filled with over thirty-thousand (not that we're keeping track). At this point, I am still fine-tuning the ALMA software attempting to smooth out its remaining rough edges. So the output will come out at different times maybe a month or so apart. Hopefully, you will discover fewer and fewer mistakes, and paragraphs that you may find difficult to understand or even translate into English. This is the second output of a series, the book titled Futures Past being the first. I'm doing this in an attempt to keep the record accurate if there should be interest in the future, people may find the order intact and, to my embarrassment, as inaccurate as it may be.

Sometime, somewhere, in a place he doesn't recognize, a man wakes and discovers he's lost his memory while facing a hostile world that seems bent on his destruction. In his quest to discover his past identity, he encounters a woman who's bent on confusing him, a farmer whose life he saves, a man trying to shoot him, a glandular case kid, a mountain man who shows him a great red sea, and a person who considers himself the One. All the while, a great army of strange beings seems determined to kill everyone who's not them. All this, centering on a twenty-four hour restaurant that seems indestructible.

Poe, Hemingway, Twain, Salinger, O. Henry, and Updike move over, there's clearly a new rival on the block. In his one hundred and sixty five short stories published in eight volumes, David Cope has created a new paradigm of the form. The genres he's chosen cover the map-from noir, mystery, and thriller, to science fiction, humor, death, and amnesia-and these stories range in size from a few pages to short novellas. I find these stories the perfect antidote to the often-endless drivel of today's thousand-page novels and a once-again peek into the world where every word counts. Five stars. Jon Marshall, Bookworm Magazine

California bounty hunter Jake Chase finds himself trailing a man accused of attempting to assassinate the President of the United States. Caught in the act, charged with the crime, jailed but now out on a ten million dollar bail, the assailant escapes leaving the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security and many local law enforcement agencies in the lurch. On his own, Jake discovers the man on the run is no dummy, and that competing with several agencies for the credit of bringing in one of the most notorious non-convicted attempted assassins in history presents more complications than he could ever have imagined. Add to that the fugitive's gang trying to protect him and his whereabouts so they can kill him themselves, and Jake's job becomes ever more difficult. Worse yet, along the way he uncovers something so incredible and impossible to believe, that only his anger and honor keeps him going.

The first photo in this book repeats dozens of times as source for the uniqueness of every page. A good close look at each variation of the original photo will eventually yield this truth, but readers are encouraged to seek the balance and structure of each version as they individually vary rather than attempting to find that which they hold in common. As with my Artists of Big Sur volume, this book deals with computational post-processing using a variety of off-the-shelf apps and personal algorithms that provide the contrasting variations.

Foundations of Tonal Music covers the basics of music theory from notation to early twentieth-century tonal music with examples, exercises, and explanations. Suitable for anyone wishing to understands the basics of tonal music theory.

He looked down and found a solitary piece of turf looking out of the earth alongside him, in any event a foot if not two against some other soil spread. A loner, like him. Looking up again, he saw the bird of prey again. Separated from the rest. This one getting a charge out of an uncommon look at light before freezing in the following winter storm. A slight breeze brushed his cheek like several supple lips might. Not a kiss, yet a teasingly botched chance. He looked upward once again. The winged creature had evaporated.

Taking Sides is a book describing five new innovative board games.

Sun, Moon, Stars is a children's story with illustrations following a young girl's journey into space and what she learns there.

A teenager realizes that he's not much good at anything and ponders what kind of life's in store for him. His father tells him a story about another young man who had the same problem.

200 poems by David Cope with accompanying drawings for each one.

Symphony 6 of 9 symphonies in score by David Cope. For full symphony orchestra in five movements.

The genres Cope's chosen cover the map-from noir, mystery, and thriller, to science fiction, humor, romance, and war-and these stories range in size from a few pages to short novellas. Cope also covers a variety of writing styles, comfortable in all, with first-person narratives, third person fifties' pulp fiction, newspaper factual revelations, and extraordinary allegory, metaphors, and profound observations about the human condition abounding. Without a single exception, I find these stories the perfect antidote to the often endless drivel of today's thousand-page novels and a once-again peek into the world where every word counts. Five stars. - Jon Marshall

About a teenage boy who, with his friend decide to skip school and all the problems they encounter as a result.

Complete score to David Cope's Piano Concerto.

A tow-truck driver working the grave shift out of Ludlow, California on a lonely Interstate is called out at three in the morning for an overturned big rig. Before he knows it, he's chasing his own truck in a cop car trying to find a murderer in the middle of the Mojave Desert, a murderer who's anything but dumb and desperate. In fact, he has a real purpose in mind: to kill the tow-truck driver and the deputy that's along for the ride.

Eight one-act ten-minute plays for small theater productions.

A white man arrives in a dilapidated village high on a desert mesa with the intention to rebuild its schoolhouse. The local Indians are not happy about this uninvited guest messing with their village buildings and attempt to stop him. Something about this man and his decidedly racist ways, however, confuse and perturb the locals such that they preoccupy their entire lives with him. And so begins an ordeal that will break one or both into a defeated ghost or ghosts of the village's storied past.

Known as The Phoenix, I completed the first draft of my first symphony during the summer of 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona where I lived at the time. The dedication suggests both the location of composition and the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra which gave me plenty of experience by allowing my attendance at its rehearsals. A portion of the first movement was performed in 1968 by the orchestra at Kansas State College where I taught, though by then the work had been seriously revised several times. Over the years since, I have tinkered with various sections now and then and eventually completed the work in 2008. This latter form represents the score here with many sections included from earlier attempts.

Photographs on a common theme taken by David Cope, artist, composer, and author.

The 2-piano arrangement of the Piano Concerto in the style of Mozart composed by Experiments in Musical Intelligence created by David Cope.

Away Again Home is a children's book written for the author's three grandchildren. A boy runs away from home, makes friends with a lizard, coyote, deer, rabbit, bobcat, and a goat, before returning home. There he learns that home is important and that he has not really lost his new friends.

The first amendment to the U.S. Constitution as adopted in 1791 reads as follows: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Quite a statement given the events that have occurred since the inception of the Internet in the late 20th century. Clearly whistleblowing and hacking have disintegrated secrecy for governments like ours in America that rely on the Net. Needing secrets to protect the enemy from knowing our intentions have themselves violated this amendment many times over. Where exactly is the line drawn between the freedom of the press and free speech and the necessary secrecy of self-protection as a country? The novel that follows investigates this and other issues through two characters who take on pharmaceutical companies, Proxima centauri b, the Internet going down, pandemics, global warming, overpopulation, lack of water, the world economy, religious wars, artificial life, international hacking, the Fifth Estate, ISIS, atomic bombs, wayward asteroids, nanotechnology, wandering black holes, dark matter, dark energy, magnetic pole shifts, antimatter, sun flareups, Yellowstone volcanism, civil wars, new drugs, and what they might mean to the future of our world.

One of my very first research studies in my early teens (1952) I decided to combine art and science in the design of a radio telescope to fit my parent's rooftop, gave indications of changes through sound output and input (a very large radio inherited from my relatives for SETI) and looked, I thought, quite elegant. This took about half a year but eventually gave me the opportunity to hear all manner of sounds I'd never heard before, patterns that gave me thoughts of little green men along with all manner of sunrises and sunsets and the great red spot on Jupiter.After a year or so as Acting Dean and Provost at UCSC in the early 1980s, I took my first sabbatical and decided to spend some time traveling, as well as considering what I'd do for contrast. What then occurred was probably more of a mid-life crisis than a break from academia. I gathered a robust and professional group of scientists, artists, and musicians to help make my dream a reality. This group included professional radio astronomers, architects, electronics experts, surveyors, and maybe six or seven other very gifted people in the fields of law, financial experts, and publicists. Unfortunately, the few thousands of dollars we were able to raise would not cover the publication of this book, and thus, after several years, the wonderful group of dedicated board members and I gave up on the project which produced the book you are now reading the back cover (of). While the dreams of this project still occasionally makes dreams for us, most are fully aware of the gravity of projects like this and the cost of observatories (both of the radio telescopic variety and the mirror and lens variety) and know that without incredible support, few of these actually get built. .

Dylan Frye was born into a relatively rich family of three, his parents and him, but he rarely saw the other two, being raised primarily by a hired nanny. A loner but not friendless, he made it through high school by a thread, spending most of his time forming and controlling small-time semi-legal businesses on the side. After a few months as gofer in a law firm, he decided to marry someone richer than himself and, after his parents died and left him their mini-fortune, he made his way into real estate. He learned, as they say, via street smarts, and slowly turned millions into billions. A few wives and divorces later, and making a foray into gambling, he decided to take a chance at politics. So, without any experience, he ran for the Presidency of the United States of America, and the rest is history.