"Cymatics" is a neologism referring to the study of the aesthetics of wave patterns, and was first coined in the 1960s.
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.
May not have been an ancient musical system but somebody was clued in on sound waves at the time.
Guess the take home lesson is:
If the pitch fits you must emit.
oh man....buzz killer....
oh man....buzz killer....
The R. chapel is basically a giant inkblot. You can see anything you want.
It is certainly archetecturally interesting and no doubt the creators were having some fun -— and doing things like putting in random repeating patterns -— but to look for much more is a fool’s errand.
Hey, that's the best description of John Gage's 'music' I've ever heard although I've heard some of his prepared piano pieces that actually sounded pretty cool.
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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