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Topic: Dale Pond
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It is possible to definite an "exact" second mathematically. There being several different ways to determine the actually length of a day hence their derived seconds would be proportional. So one is left with which day to choose to match with whatever rate of cycles per each of those seconds. This would indicate and be determinate of my second point: Which is what you eluded to: musicians perform and experience their music as an interacting or interactant phenomena. Interacting with the local environment as per the other players and their degrees of attunement, their sense of time, the conductor, the music and the reverberations from and with the setting; resonance of the walls, ceiling, seats, contained auditorium volume, relative humidity, etc., just to name a few. There is a discipline in acoustic science called "Modal Analysis" which is a comprehensive analysis of as many of the discrete vibrations measureable in a given complex of vibrations, say in a moving automobile. Of course, there are infinite numbers of vibrations in a moving automobile. Engineering's ability to sense/detect, record and quantify all these vibrations AND THEIR HARMONICS is excedingly limited when compared to the vibrations not sensed/detected, measured and quantified. In short, an accurate and comprehensive modal analysis is impossible. All this leads to the inevitable conclusion that well performed music is indeed a subjective experience, both in the playing and experience of it. No amount of mathematics, science and engineering can keep up with it. When a highly sensitive and trained person such as a Beethoven or a Schiller gets involved no doubt they are "aware" of subtlies not even known to mathematics, science and engineering much less detectable or measureable. I've found this phenomena all over the Keely devices - when designing or building them. No amount of rationality or intellectual knowing is going to create an accurate Keely device. There is much more to it than the intellect can grapple with. Hence the need for developing the "inner" or "higher" senses which allow greater awareness of that which is being dealt with. Not being a practicing musician I'm always in awe of what musicians do. |
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