Speaking of intentional seeds, another subject that has been on my mind lately has to do with building, measurement and music. I’m seeing it a little bit in juggling as well, but its mostly an intuitive understanding right now. It has to do with breaking up forms into segments. Like in a bar of music, you can divide it into beats: 2, 3, 4, whatever. Same thing in a foot of lumber, you can divide it in halves, quarters, whatever you want. Then you use these measurements somehow to combine bits and pieces together into more complex structures… Anyway, just shooting that out there into cyber/dreamspace for it to fester, along with some associative imagery culled from my recent web searches:
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Have you head that quote about how architecture is frozen music?
Check out ” cymatics ” .
cymatics images
and
cymatic video
Demonstrating that sound is a physical thing - pure tones in the Pythagorean scale produce shapes with perfect geometry.
Harmonies will literally produce beautiful harmonious “objects” of sound.
I think there are examples online of this effect in three dimensions as well.
I reckon it’s possible that a particular word or song could be physically represented accurately in another material.
Could you mould a name from a clay?
Divisions, even if imaginary or left entirely to chance in their original creation, will always form patterns-that-surprise if the divisions are kept consistent once they’re created. And if they’re played around with long enough.
I find that consistency of both measurement and endurance are so much more important than whatever the original divisions happened to be.
Divine mathematics, the AI, and story systems.
Another thought while i’m here…
Cymatic images are only slices of sound waves - a cross-section of an object which progresses through time.
To represent this 3D+time object in a fixed-in-time sculpture, one of the spacial dimensions may need to be lost.
also:
Nada Brahma - “The World Is A Sound”
Cymatics are cool, yeah, but its not quite the connection I’m seeking. However, one of the associate conductors here wants to learn how to juggle, so I’m gonna try to form this into words with him. Will continue to share my findings.
Definitely getting deep into Renaissance/Da Vinci territory here, I think. Need to find some good illustrated materials to study…
To be more specific about the cymatics thing: I guess I’m just not sure how I would practically set about creating a cymatic representation of a sound. I want to have something I can put together with wood that will bridge these gaps for me.
Probably should start looking at things like golden ratios or proportions or whatever that thing I’m thinking of is… Feel like Wagner must have covered this - alchemy in opera, that sort of thing. I know theres a bridge point but I’ve not yet discovered the cipher.
For whatever reason I feel that this is my favorite post on this website in quite some time.
Would enjoy hearing articulated why