[microsound] Golden Ratio discovery [may be of interest to someone]

[Robert Lewis]

1) What do you mean by coherence?

systematic consistency across all time and space scales

2) And how does this relate to the
practice of music?

the universe is a complete whole

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 1:03 AM, David Powers <cyborgk at gmail.com> wrote:

> What do you mean by coherence? And how does this relate to the
> practice of music?
>
> ***
>
> Hypothesis:
> Music is not only numbers, mathematics, and structure, but also what
> is irreducible to those things. The musician struggles with numbers,
> until they cry out in pain. Then music becomes messianic
> mathematics--the language of utopia.
>
> ~David
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Robert Lewis <ionizing at gmail.com> wrote:
> > there are few strange coincidences in the universe, and no paradoxes but
> in
> > perception.  it is meaningful as another example of the golden ratio in
> the
> > natural world, for those of us looking for coherence in all scales of
> nature
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:29 PM, David Powers <cyborgk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> My first thought on reading this, is to ask whether such a discovery
> >> is in any way meaningful, or whether it should be viewed as merely a
> >> strange coincidence?
> >>
> >> ~David
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:56 PM, d4l3d <d4l3d at inbox.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Found this interesting.
> >> >
> >> > For those of us who have a thing for Fibonnaci/Golden Ratio, this was
> >> > recently posted through Slashdot:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/01/07/golden.ratio.discovered.a.quantum.world
> >> >
> >> > May be useful to someone.
> >> >
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