[Icehouse] Zendo mention...

[Don Sheldon]

On 8/12/06, Michael Shanley <postgoop at optonline.net> wrote:
> I just thought I'd mention a Zendo reference I saw in "This is Your
> Brain on Music" by Daniel J. Levitin. The book is about the psychology
> of acoustics but on page p231, when talking about how people like music
> that is neither too complicated nor to simple for their understanding,
> he compares complex jazz to "games like Go, Axiom, and Zendo." lol.

Not to hijack your thread or anything, but this reminded me:  Last
weekend I brought my Icehouse set to my wife's grandmother's house to
teach Zendo to the gathered family there after dinner.  Players ranged
from a super-mallrat teenager to a 50 something working professional,
with a smattering of 20 something regular joes in between.  (Grandma
was tired and took a nap though).

And now, the point: everyone had an enormous amount of fun.  Many of
us had never met before.  Most of us had only met a handful of times.
But everyone got involved and enjoyed themselves like we were all old
friends.  God how I love Zendo.

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