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

[David Powers]

What is the sound of a number crying in pain? Robert Johnson singing
the blues song "Hellhound On My Trail," or John Coltrane's saxophone
playing in his later period.

The question for us today is, can we imagine a "microblues"?

I personally think we must exploit the dialectical tension between
number and antinumber, and between construction and expression. One
way to envision this is to subvert the typical procedures in
post-serial or aleatoric music, which often involved the composer only
in setting up the initial "rules of the game," and then letting the
objective laws of the composition play themselves out. Instead, I
suggest that we might set up arbitrary systems, but only for the
purpose of struggling against and subverting those systems.

~David

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 9:43 AM, john saylor <js0000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hola
>
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 1:03 AM, David Powers <cyborgk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The musician struggles with numbers,
>> until they cry out in pain. Then music becomes messianic
>> mathematics--the language of utopia.
>
> reading this brings up some questions:
> what is the sound of a number crying in pain?
> is it a microsound if the number evaluates < 1?
> are there irrational numbers in utopia?
>
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