“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Beats and Tones: Patterns, Emergence, Causality


Think of a straight line. Then break it into two pieces by chopping the middle third out. Now you have a beat, the space between the lines; and two beats, the lines. Then chop the middle thirds out of those lines. You have some more beats. And more beats-as-lines.

Eventually you end up with Cantor dust. Cantor dust is weird, because it has infinity pulses in it, and infinity no-pulses. Infinity beats and infinity beats-as-lines.

Think of a continuous tone. Now interrupt it. You have a beat and you have two beats, or pulses. You have tones. Any type of tones. All types of tones, just hypnotones. Nature is a reification of this kind of configuration space, in the sense I defined in a recent post.

Listen to bleep music. This is Hypnotonic by Hypnotone.



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