“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

The Properties of Things

The Properties Of Things

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. 
Olivier Messiaen

Buttersquash Pizza

“Art destroys silence.”
― Dmitri Shostakovich, Testimony: The Memoirs

Enthalpy Gradient

October

Nothing Is Going According To Plan

Elroy665

elroy665

It's an experiment about sound design rather than structure. 
Let me know what you think.

2 Cornrows

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.  -John Cage

7 Seconds Later

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
-John Cage

Starling

“It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.” 
― John Cage

aggressive habitat modification

Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens. -John Cage

Bessel Functions

“Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.”
― John Cage

Banach Tarski Paradox

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry. -Iannis Xenakis

Kitab Fi Jawami

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.
Iannis Xenakis

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'As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.'
-Silence, John Cage

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