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Re: OT: Programmed/Hand made music (was: Random word generators (was Re: Worthwhile Engelang Goal))

From:Jonathan Chang <zhang23@...>
Date:Thursday, June 9, 2005, 20:18
"Any sufficiently advanced music is indistinguishable from noise" (after
Arthur C. Clarke's aphorism that any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguisable from magic.)" - John Chalmers, in email response to the
quote _The Difference between Music and Noise is all in your Head_


    "Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back
    on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase
    noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation,
    meditation.  Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, whistling, crashing,
    grinding, and trilling bolster his ego." - Jean Arp


"... simple, chaotic, anarchic and menacing.... This is what people of today
have lost and need most - the ability to experience permanent bodily and
mental ecstasy, to be a receiving station for messages howling by on the
ether from other worlds and nonhuman entities, those peculiar short-wave
messages which come in static-free in the secret pleasure center in the
brain." - Slava Ranko (Donald L. Philippi)


--
Hanuman Zhang