>On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 12:04 +0200, Julian Rohrhuber wrote:
>> could it be that geometry is only a way to think about thinking?
>
>Yes it could be that geometry is one way to think among many.
>
>> because we are used to organise our thoughts in maplike ways, we take
>> this practice as a model for thought itself? I see though that
>> "thought itself" may not exist. But what abous thinking in sound? It
>> seems to me that sound is not geometrical.
>
>I think we compose and perceive sound in geometrical space. We choose
>sounds close to each other or far apart. This distance is similarity,
>across the dimensions of timbre that we are focusing on
>(graininess/distortion/pitch/whatever).
yes, my suspicion was somehow that this type of conceptualising sound
may be internalised synthesiser techniques (or greek physics) in the
first place.
>Synths tend to have continuous controllers for controlling the sound,
>trying to give us something like a dimension of perception to tweak.
>
>The Klee Sequencer is a counter-example...
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W35ZpxBg_Ao
>
>
>alex
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