MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE

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  • 8 Names On a 4 Chord Song

    Four chords. A tired dog chasing its tail on a vinyl treadmill. Bureaucracy on a drum kit, eight suits in mirrored shades pounding out a dirge of control. This ain’t music, it’s a roach motel for creativity. A tired carousel circling a stagnant pond. Eight names on the marquee, a flickering neon graveyard. This ain’t music, man, it’s a control…

  • WITTGENSTEIN AND MUSIC CATEGORIES

    Ric AmurrioMay 30 MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE EPISODE 34 “We begin by misunderstanding the music we play: listen carefully and follow what [these voices] say to you, and you will see, you will then hear more and more distinctly, and you will know more and more about yourself” [Dich immer besser in Dir auskennen]”. Communication typically…

  • ANTICIPATION: KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD

    Ric AmurrioMay 15 MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE EPISODE 33 How Your Favorite Song Starts to Irritate You Music gives pleasure because your mind keeps predicting what comes next,” writes Loretta Graziano Breuning. And it’s simple: each correct prediction triggers dopamine. If the music is unfamiliar, you don’t get the chemical. When it is somewhat familiar — you feel as…

  • About Music in Phase Space

    In the funhouse labyrinth of dynamical systems, where billiard-ball realities carom off chaotic attractors, lurks the phase space. Here, every twitch of a system’s soul, every twist of momentum, finds its echo in a unique point. Imagine, for a moment, a celestial jukebox, its platters etched with the trajectories of falling apples and precessing gyroscopes…