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

[Chris Bullen]

When I first saw this appear in my mailbox, I thought it said "Golden Ratio Disco". 
Was not sure what it was going to be about but it looked as if this might be a kind of humorous approach or some mental piece of free/shareware. But no, it was back to the old classical attempt to find mathematical perfection. Over 30 years ago, when I was at art school, plenty of dull work was produce by colleagues claiming they were using a "Golden Section", certainly in straight painting it never made any great impression on me (one way or another), all I thought was "fuck it, school maths! I left home to get away from this".
Cheers Chrisb


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From: Robert Lewis <ionizing at gmail.com>
To: microsound at microsound.org
Sent: Sunday, 10 January, 2010 16:18:37
Subject: Re: [microsound] Golden Ratio discovery [may be of interest to someone]

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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