Category: MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE
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ON PLAYING AND SIMULATED PLAYING
EPISODE 7 MUSIC IN PHASE TIME In the first sequence of Peter Brook’s film “Meetings With Remarkable Men,” tribes/clan people from miles around gather at the foot of a mountain range to observe a musicians challenge. The champion will not be the one who can play the fastest, or the longest piece, or the most…
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The Birth of the Cool
Liminality’s Twilight Carnival Forget sunrise, chum. Limbo’s a neon alley flickering at the frayed edges of reality. Think flophouse hallways reeking of burnt toast and broken dreams. That’s the liminal zone, man. A psychic meat grinder where selfhood gets shredded and reformed like a cut-up. Vulnerable, yeah, but potent – a cyberpunk alchemical stew bubbling…
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PARADIGMATIC MIND AND LIMINAL MIND: THE BIRTH OF THE COOL
Ric Amurrio 12 min read EPISODE 6 MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE: Liminal Consciousness is the state that exists between and betwixt, at the edges of boundaries, at dawn and dusk, in the moments before falling asleep and the moments of resurfacing from the dreamtime into waking. It is a time that is often more vulnerable, but…
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The Paradigmatic and the Liminal Mind
The human mind is a complex and dynamic entity that is constantly evolving and adapting to new experiences and stimuli. In the field of psychology, there are two broad categories that are used to describe the different states of the mind: the paradigmatic and the liminal mind. These two states represent different modes of thinking…
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Gesamtkunswerk
This post is a riff: an ostinato phrase (as in jazz) based on a piece by Professor Ursula Rehn Wolfman In many of Wagner’s writings, such as Art and Religion — 1849), The Artwork of the Future — 1849 and Opera and Drama — 1852, the idea of the’Gesamtkunstwerk’ — total art — became the…
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Complicated, Complexity, Chaos
WHAT DOES COMPLEXITY MEAN? Science has progressed, at least beginning with the physical sciences, by always being reductionistic: that is, reducing things to their primary elements, whether they’re electrons, atoms, molecules, or genes and so forth. That has been enormously successful, but one of the things that we’ve begun to appreciate more and more is…
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Levels of Perspective
LEVELS OF PERSPECTIVE “ACTING” IN DIFFERENT MODES Events are very compelling because they often require an instant response. For example, if a house is burning, we react by immediately trying to put out the fire. Putting out the fire is an appropriate action, but if that’s all we ever did, it would be inadequate from…
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Music As Public Utility
Ted Nelson proposed that instead of copying digital media, we should effectively keep only one copy of each cultural expression — as with a book or a song — and pay the author of that expression a small, affordable amount whenever it is accessed. (Of course, as a matter of engineering practice, there would have to be many copies…
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Aristotle’s Frets: The human condition is a function of what machines cannot not do
Throughout human history, economic behavior has been largely defined by the notion of rival goods induced scarcity, which posits that resources are finite and individuals must compete for them. This concept has become so deeply ingrained in our collective mindset that it has become a persistent habit of the mind, creating an intellectual inertia that…
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Why Have Key Changes Disappeared? The Algorithmic Flattening of Music
There was a time when music changed because musicians changed it. The 1960s and the late 1980s were moments of exploratory abundance, where artists—unconstrained by invisible hands of optimization—chose their own paths. Key changes, unconventional structures, and unexpected genre fusions weren’t strategic decisions; they were what happened when musicians pushed at the edges of possibility.…