SOT: music and quantum mechanics

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on 2/9/03 9:16 PM, prozak at anus.com at prozak at anus.com wrote:

> [ From a friend. ]
> 
>> And what is the connection between harmony/polyphony
>> and entropy, you might ask? Good question.
> 
> Shortly i would put it as such... i think the closest example of
> which i can contrast the question at hand to (using metaphor as you
> know i am quite fond) would be the theory of general relativity and
> the theory of quantum mechanics. General relativity dissects things
> on an extremely small scale which is parallel to how polyphonic
> melodies and shapes move and operate. Quantum mechanics' purpose is
> to illuminate the properties of the large which is how discordant
> music operates; on a large and free scale full of speculation. The
> theory of quantum mechanics and general relativity are both beautiful
> yet they negate each other much like polyphonic and discordant
> musical ideologies. Furthermore and more bluntly - now the paradoxal
> truth rears its ugly head - one theory cannot exist without the other
> yet both cannot be true. thats brings us to say, "hello superstring
> theory." which is what i partially try to capture in [my] music;
> trying to be create the stringtheory in the world of  music.


Can't remember who said this.

>Eric Clapton could make his guitar sound like birds singing. Jimi Hendrix could
make his guitar sound like planets colliding. I have a bird feeder so tell
Eric that he needn't bother.