Posted on 05/02/2007 6:28:52 AM PDT by NYer
This is the usual nonsense wherein people who have stupidly wasted their time trying to find a secret pattern will themselves into seeing a pattern where none existed.
I could take a basket of marbles, throw them on the living room floor and - by assigning specific notational values to the random marbles according to color or position - use them to compose a musical piece.
A modified form of this kind of randomization is already a compositional technique in postmodern music: serialism.
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I am forever amazed and humbled by how bright so very many Freepers are. Thank you for the info.
A pleasure.
We are spoiled these days. I was expecting a link to an mp3 file where I could hear the music. Do I actually have to wait????
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Written music is encrypted even now. The encryption is standardized as notation, but when this piece was done the modern standard did not exist. Even so, modern avant-garde composers sometimes use non-standard notation and if you don't know the code nothing but gibberish will result.
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It's what we do. In art anyway there is a pattern that will remain undiscovered until critics find it even though the patterns they find do probably not include the pattern the artist was following.
Don’t be ruining a good conspiracy theory with the truth.
Next, you’ll be telling me that Hiram Abiff isn’t depicted in the Last Supper as the waiter.
See! Convincing proof!
It's what we do.
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True, true, true, b/c it's hardwired into us. It's why we see a man(or bunny) in the moon; clouds shaped like boats, teddy bears or whatever; why lazily starring up a ceiling with its bumps and whorls of plaster, or in the shower idly glancing at the pattern of shower tiles, we "see" things -- faces, etc.
Even as a little, tiny kid our eyes glom onto and our brains work to find "things" in random patterns -- like clouds and shower tiles. So in this case Musicians unlock mystery melody in chapel is almost certainly a case of "We see what we look for".
But I guess anything's possible!
Interesting Masonic sidelight: my gg grandfather was involved in the Spring Hill election riots, where Redemptionists got in a brawl with a carpetbagger judge when he tried to "recount" the ballots in an election. During the melee, somebody knocked over the lamp. Somebody grabbed the judge under the store counter and was going to shoot him, when "he gave the Masonic Sign of Distress and was saved."
This may be of interest to you:
http://www.casca.ca/ecass/issues/2005-me/features/turner/Stars%20of%20St_John’s.html
Another example of someone secretly leaving their imprint in a church.
Thanks! Love it :)
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