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26th piece of my 2013 piece-a-week resolution.



Week 26 (Elegon)

14th piece of my 2013 piece-a-week project. 

Special thanks to Daniel Jimenez for Mixing voice over.

Dialogue is from Richard Feynman's 1981 BBC Interview. The interview is also the subject of Feynman's book The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.

I have a friend who's an artist and he's some times taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say, "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree, I think. And he says, "you see, I as an artist can see how beautiful this is, but you as a scientist, oh, take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing." And I think he's kind of nutty. 

First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me, too, I believe, although I might not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is. But I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. 

At the same time, I see much more about the flower that he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside which also have a beauty. I mean, it's not just beauty at this dimension of one centimeter: there is also beauty at a smaller dimension, the inner structure...also the processes. 

The fact that the colors in the flower are evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting -- it means that insects can see the color. 

It adds a question -- does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms that are...why is it aesthetic, all kinds of interesting questions which a science knowledge only adds to the excitement and mystery and the awe of a flower. 

It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.



Week 14 (Years of Knowledge)

23rd piece of my 2013 piece-a-week resolution.

I believe this is the first piano-only piece I do this year.

Week 23 (Tesseract)

This is the 24th piece in my 2013 piece-a-week project. 

Hope you enjoy it.

Week 24 (Knick knack)

25h piece of my 2013 piece-a-week resolution.

Hope you enjoy it.

This is one of the pieces I've had the most fun doing. 

Week 25 (Emissary)

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