Re: Weekly Vocab 29
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 17, 2003, 20:45 |
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In a message dated 2003:11:16 03:09:45 PM, faceloran@JUNO.COM writes:
>*sigh* I really need some new topics. I can't do peasant revolts every
>week,
>can I?
Try sci-fi ;)
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<A HREF="http://www.post-concrete.com/">Sino: _post-concrete_</A>
The German word for "noise" _Geräusch_ is derived from _rauschen_ "the
sound of the wind," related to _Rausch_ "ecstasy, intoxication" hinting at some
of the possible aesthetic, bodily effects of noise in music.
Scientists say music is ubiquitous in Nature (Earth itself) and shows up
in the arrangements of the planets, in seascapes, in our brainwaves. 'Flicker
Noise' - Nature's inaudible rhythms & patterns are in everything - heartbeats,
climate change, X-ray outputs, in interplanetary magnetic fields....
"When you're trying to do something you should feel absolutely alone, like a
spark in the blackness of the universe." -Iannis Xenakis
"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_
"It's the greatest achievement to be able to hear the sounds of the world,
all the sounds, as part of some vast musical composition with no beginning or
end, but infinite nuance, endless layers and parts in the score... Your ears are
trained when you can take it all in, not just what you like to hear." - David
Rothenberg
"... 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)
<A HREF="http://www.newmusicbox.org/index.nmbx">NewMusicBox</A>