Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 08:51:48
From: smoke navigator <gato-AT-inetarena.com>
Subject: Re: Alliances


>Regarding what you're saying above: Being a guy who makes stuff that
sometimes
>sound like music, but most often does not, I sometimes pick up on certain
themes
>from books, movies, music, whatever, and I can sort of "hear" timbres or
bits and
>pieces of tiny musical fragments that I might or might not decide to (try
to) turn
>into something semi-musical. In other words, a certain sentence, or perhaps a
>picture of a building in an architecture magazine, might resonate so as to
trigger
>an idea that's not in any way compatible with what triggered my response
>(behaviourism, anyone?), but they might still have something in common --
at least
>to the person who's trying to convert his response into something else;
the two
>ideas communicate, but precisely because you can't make music out of
literature, or
>literature out of music, they are not, and can't be, adaptions or direct
>translations from one field to another. It's impossible to fuse a sentence
with a
>sequence of notes or sounds, if you know what I mean, but since sentences
release
>timbres, you can become their sound by putting your ego (and samplers and
>computers;) into the equation. The words & sentences & sounds/music remain
>heterogenous, but there is something in the middle that never becomes the
either-or
>of these disparate elements.

this sounds like something i read about long ago that triggered a thought
in me...i've only read a little bit about the game-rules of quantum physics
and how they directly apply to human beings, but i remember clearly reading
about the nervous system in discover magazine quite a while ago about how
the nerve-endings in our brains have what are called 'micro-tubules' that
contain single electrons. these electrons are separate from each other, but
they interact in such a fashion that follows the game-rules of quantum
physics. this seems to be why human communication and thought suffers from
information-to-noise ratios (which make life more interesting sometimes
anyway) and at the same time explains (at least to my fractured logic)
nonlocality of thought. if two subatomic (quantum-realm) particles
touchcollide even for a nano- or pico-second, they continue to exchange
information about each other no matter how far across the universe they
stray. this to me explains how people can remain 'in tune' if they know
each other well, no matter how far away they are. 
information is simply information, no matter where it comes from, or how it
is used. computers are amazing, because you can scan a picture, take the
raw data from the scan, and program your computer to turn it into sound (or
noize) as well as take a sound and turn it into color. there are some
interesting synaesthetic programs out on the internet. information wants to
be free from the constraints we place on it.

~gato~