tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post5013104657864635682..comments2024-03-28T12:10:26.197-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Matter and Life: Frozen Music and Flowing ArchitectureGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-65318345527149077262018-07-31T00:27:57.037-07:002018-07-31T00:27:57.037-07:00Hi
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I like this: &q...Most unusual, this cosmos thing. <br /><br />I like this: "It takes a family to raise a village."<br /><br />A family is a geometry of relations, a wave, a field. <br /><br />You can't build a village out of particles. You end up with entropy.<br /><br />i.e. Obamanation<br />Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987042455512485699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-32309412854345265522013-03-11T08:56:57.232-07:002013-03-11T08:56:57.232-07:00Riv, I like that "two arms" visual.Riv, I like that "two arms" visual.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8020299480137288562013-03-11T08:13:29.628-07:002013-03-11T08:13:29.628-07:00Yeah, I'm definitely getting the book.
It se...Yeah, I'm definitely getting the book. <br /><br />It seems, in 'Spenglerian' terms, a balancing step away from the Faustian West's obsession with energy toward its antipode, the Grecian West's obsession with pattern, or 'Logos'. <br /><br />In Orthodox terms, the Son and Spirit are the two 'arms' of the Father; the Spirit being the one who energizes, and the Son being the one who patterns, if you will. <br /><br />So when the Psalmist says, 'This is a change that has been wrought by God's right hand' - this is interpreted to mean the action of the Son. <br /><br />The dovetail is this; an attempt to emphasize pattern over energy or vice versa will create pneumopathology - or just implicitly wrong theology.<br /><br />Neo-classicism and the various theologies that are born from it seem to represent one step in a series of reverberating backlashes, or bouncing between 'Son' and 'Spirit' theologies. (Pentecostalism is transparently Spirit over Son theology.)<br /><br />A balance is required, but it can only be found where the Father is monarchos.Ephrem Antony Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00032465992619034619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84156529017313187492013-03-11T06:08:16.352-07:002013-03-11T06:08:16.352-07:00"All you need to write a country song is thre..."All you need to write a country song is three chords and the truth." -Harlan Howard.<br /><br />"Anything more than two chords is just showing off." -Woody GuthrieJackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708393262849661076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85399065203020276622013-03-10T19:36:17.346-07:002013-03-10T19:36:17.346-07:00Interesting note I wasn't aware of, in softwar...Interesting note I wasn't aware of, in software, Object Oriented Design came from a book on Design Patterns by a set of authors known as the GOF, the Gang of Four. <br /><br />Apparently, according to some googling, they got their idea and inspiration from Christopher Alexander.<br /><br />The old line "There are signs everywhere", maybe should be amended to "There are patterns everywhere", if you look for them.<br /><br />An infinity of centers.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62695301056014978492013-03-10T17:31:02.213-07:002013-03-10T17:31:02.213-07:00"Without the prior wholeness, all the informa..."Without the prior wholeness, all the information in the world won't get you from matter to Life -- nor, for that matter, will it get you from Life to Mind, Mind to Spirit, or Spirit to God. In a way, the ID folks are laboring under the same paradigm that limits and stymies conventional Darwinism. The problem is the Cartesianism, whether it appears in the form of Darwinism or ID."<br /><br />, and,<br /><br />"Let's see if I can find one who speaks for me.... Here, close enough:<br /><br />"The essence of [Alexander's] view is this: the universe is not made of 'things,' but of patterns, of complex, interactive geometries. Furthermore, this way of understanding the world can unlock marvelous secrets of nature, and perhaps even make possible a renaissance of human-scale design and technology...."<br /><br />Yep. It was recognizing the relations between Object Oriented Programming, relational database design and philosophy, that began opening things up and making the whole click together for me. Those patterns exist between so much, it seems more sensible to say that they are not merely interesting coincidences, but the as yet barely glimpsed armature within which the whole is built upon.<br /><br />You can find it between geometry & music, geometry & art, geometry & life (google Fibonacci Numbers in nature)... yet outside of trivial pursuit, the existence of such relations are mostly unknown, and certainly untaught, to modern man. <br /><br />Patterns are order, and life is not found without them - to exclude them, as has been done in modernity - especially in regards to hierarchy - is a deliberate attempt to 'break the pattern' that is Wisdom.<br /><br />What life could there be without it?<br /><br />Other than nasty, brutish and short, I mean....Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-46743344757482703012013-03-10T16:24:32.009-07:002013-03-10T16:24:32.009-07:00I may have shared this quip before but it fits--
L...I may have shared this quip before but it fits--<br />Lou Reed: "One chord is fine. Two chords is pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz."gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-15537924494580063142013-03-10T13:09:39.565-07:002013-03-10T13:09:39.565-07:00" Great music communicates life directly, but...<i>" Great music communicates life directly, but it's not necessarily a function of complexity or form. It's like soul calling out to soul, or life to life."</i><br /><br />Ah yes, I couldn't agree more. When young, many of us delight in complexity and the mistaken belief that one is going to build something completely new up from scratch. This often means complexity for it's own sake. <br /><br />Perhaps then a second naivete starts to emerge as one matures as an artist, musician or thinker etc. <br /><br />Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708393262849661076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-88569258069072604072013-03-10T10:04:43.710-07:002013-03-10T10:04:43.710-07:00Check it out and use it for grout:
http://www.you...Check it out and use it for grout:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdz5kCaCRFMvanderleunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296245324443413545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26770518309748264422013-03-10T10:01:33.914-07:002013-03-10T10:01:33.914-07:00Or it is, as Blues Traveller tells us, just The Ho...Or it is, as Blues Traveller tells us, just The Hook:<br /><br />It doesn't matter what I say<br />So long as I sing with inflection<br />That makes you feel that I'll convey<br />Some inner truth of vast reflection<br />But I've said nothing so far<br />And I can keep it up for as long as it takes<br />And it don't matter who you are<br />If I'm doing my job then it's your resolve that breaks<br /><br />Because the hook brings you back<br />I ain't tellin' you no lie<br />The hook brings you back<br />On that you can rely<br />vanderleunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296245324443413545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27064188008894358552013-03-10T09:45:44.154-07:002013-03-10T09:45:44.154-07:00Jack:
Re my comment on music -- I always go bac...Jack: <br /><br />Re my comment on music -- I always go back to music that is superficially quite simple -- e.g., blues, country, gospel, soul, etc. -- but which nevertheless has a profound effect on the soul, and which has <i>staying power</i>, i.e., can stand up to repeated listening, without getting bored of it. How does that work? Phenomenologically, it feels very much like what Alexander says about certain centers having more life than others. Great music communicates life directly, but it's not necessarily a function of complexity or form. It's like soul calling out to soul, or life to life.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47142176304569170482013-03-10T09:38:50.921-07:002013-03-10T09:38:50.921-07:00The cause of heart disease is up in the air but cl...The cause of heart disease is <a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/03/a-cardiac-conundrum" rel="nofollow">up in the air</a> but climate science is settled.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14227554494598497252013-03-08T19:07:51.523-08:002013-03-08T19:07:51.523-08:00"Rosen argues that reductionism does not work... "Rosen argues that reductionism does not work in biology and ignores the complexity of organisms."<br />It doesn't work with music either.debasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13546940741042023260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1166330022500043772013-03-08T19:01:23.613-08:002013-03-08T19:01:23.613-08:00So are you saying rather than trying to make the m...So are you saying rather than trying to make the music "match up" to some criterion it would spring spontaneously from within?<br />Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708393262849661076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72173261186868515232013-03-08T18:29:50.754-08:002013-03-08T18:29:50.754-08:00"The problem with your approach -- I'm gu...<i>"The problem with your approach -- I'm guessing -- is that the geometry must be a function of the life, rather than vice versa."</i><br /><br />I am not entirely clear on this. If you would care to elaborate I would love to hear.<br /><br />If I understand what you are saying at then I will say this:<br /><br />I noticed back in my music school days that it was possible to determine how close the music I was creating/playing/listening to was to "it" by the color of the music. Again, this may sound barmy. But it seemed clear. <br /><br />Lately, it increasingly appears that this perception is expanding into geometrical and spatial clues. To the point of seeming like virtual architecture. <br /><br />This is probably not uncommon.Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708393262849661076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8181512232756090602013-03-08T17:57:18.021-08:002013-03-08T17:57:18.021-08:00Remodeling? You have my sympathies. I hope it all ...Remodeling? You have my sympathies. I hope it all goes as well as these things ever go...<br /><br />Love the ballet photos, by the way. Syncoonistically, Robin's Facebook photo assignment that started this week is about photographing music. Those would fit right in.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44796869952311178352013-03-08T17:50:30.119-08:002013-03-08T17:50:30.119-08:00The problem with your approach -- I'm guessing...The problem with your approach -- I'm guessing -- is that the geometry must be a function of the life, rather than vice versa. The geometry is a side effect, so to speak. Take Bach. He must have started with an overwhelming sense of musical life, which animated the "geometry." Otherwise a computer could do it.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39574715771190307932013-03-08T17:32:59.129-08:002013-03-08T17:32:59.129-08:00"I want to let it all seep in and see where i...<i>"I want to let it all seep in and see where it leads me, especially as applied to realms more familiar to me, e.g. music, literature, and theology.</i> <br /><br />I once had some intuitions regarding a "geometry of music". Problem is that I have found no way really to put it into words. (I am trying to put it into music, but that's another issue).<br /><br />One night a year or so back I thought I had a connection between higher-dimensional geometry and the architecture of Cathedral. It made sense at the time. I tried to explain it to my atheist brother but it made no sense to him. So I dropped it.<br /><br />Upshot: I would love to hear your thoughts--when they come--on the realm of music. Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06708393262849661076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35209109737239566942013-03-08T14:27:32.671-08:002013-03-08T14:27:32.671-08:00"Yeah, I'd better put MOTT aside for the ..."Yeah, I'd better put MOTT aside for the moment"<br /><br />Hark ye the heartbroken sobs of the Littlest Angel and the heartfelt thanks of a grateful nation.vanderleunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296245324443413545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13989160595996390052013-03-08T12:56:36.224-08:002013-03-08T12:56:36.224-08:00His youtube lectures are pretty rambling, but one ...His youtube lectures are pretty rambling, but one of the best videos on him and his work is the video "Places for the Soul: The Architecture of Christopher Alexander". Unfortunately it's only on VHS, but if you have a player you can ordered through the library system. It's worth watching.Ben Miltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00059505985098422978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62262290789547714302013-03-08T12:47:11.255-08:002013-03-08T12:47:11.255-08:00Glad that my author suggestion proved interesting....Glad that my author suggestion proved interesting. It only gets more so as TNOO goes on.<br /><br />It's been especially aggravating to me that despite the breadth and insight of Alexander's works, and despite the fact that he has a very loyal (if small) following, there is little of no discussion of his works going on today, even on the internet. He has little to no online presence, and the main website for The Center for Environmental Structure (which he still leads) is awful and uninformative. www.patternlanguage.com<br /><br />Those who follow his projects occasionally hear rumors about some project or other he's working on, but they are rarely confirmed, and there is no depository collecting high-quality images of his architecture. <br /><br />He is fairly old now, and semi-retired. The few lectures I've seen of his scattered around Youtube seems to show a figure who is incredibly tired and almost despairing. He predicted decades ago that an approach like his would become the new way to go about making structures, but instead postmodernism only intensified and deepened.<br /><br />I think he's very disheartened that no one has taken up his mantle, and that there has been no concerted effort to bring real beauty back.Ben Miltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00059505985098422978noreply@blogger.com