From the Series x Statements on Art by x Artists (12.31.05, rev. 2.19.06)
Everything obeys the laws of
physics - milk spills, mountain topography,
coral and shells, all
could be described by rule,
the regular shapes of a higher mathematics.
If we knew the pattern, this would not seem so formless.
Music has a simpler logic -
12 tones in their relations can easily
be known. But scores exist on a
certain level of abstraction. One wonders
whether our symbology distances us from
the true meaning of the music. Sounds
are acts embedded within time; music is a drama.
The score is visually appealing,
but deceptive: it conceals the aspect role
of chance and individual genius in the
work's development within time.
Of course, from the transhuman perspective
of physics, there is no chance: there is only law.
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