The Arrogance of the Composer

The Arrogance of the Composer

Man's creations can only be, at best, a pale imitation of nature's complexity. It is arrogance in the composer to seek control over all variables in the design of complex music.

Song of Guiraut Riquier from chansonnier manuscript BnF 22543, folio 107r  - Public Doman

Consciousness and Anti-Music

Consciousness and Anti-Music

Photo by stuant63, used under Creative Commons License

All things spring into being with the sundering of nothing into two opposing halves. The universe demonstrates this on the largest scales where the sum total of all things is zero. Electrical charge, angular momentum, and physical space itself, are all examples of basic constituents of reality that sum to exactly nothing.