I have written a poem about ladders.
For example how I use them when climbing up the wall, which has only happened to me once. (I lie!) Ladders feed into other ladders like machines. A musical stave is a ladder I realise now. I don't see that ladders can be reduced to a phallic symbol. they are autopoietic.. Freud fails to take notice all the important stuff. He actually believes in the 'psy' to bury his living crypt in his body. Associations may be made at any moment.
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How are new fields of mathematics invented and developed?
The central ideas of Twistor Geometry. Duels and Galois Theory. I haven't a name for it. Cantorian Set theory before Zermelo-Fraenkel. Higher and higher with semiconsistent mania. The Contrappuntistica - Opus Clavicembalisticum. Transcending the reason of counterpoint. Lefebvre and isorhythms, the Greek coastal towns, Marxism. Louis Althusser. Can there be a rigorous definition of something so universal and general. Cam we itemise each aspect. Is a abstract definition actually of benefit?
Perhaps at the end of the study. I won't even say what I am tending to. Birtwistle's String Quartets are a surprise. Music however has left me. I worry that if it returns it will send me mad. Listening to ideas in my mind, vaguely, can they be defined? Birtwistles pulse shadows after Paul Celan.
I mention :Lacan only once propped up by Saussure's signifier. Raasay. The idea of the machine, an infinite machine that continues after structure fails. I can only hope there is no Inner Model for a supercompact. Birtwistles String Quartets seem reliant on the Isorhythm. At least there are two rhythms mainly. The three processes of capitalism.
Action of power. Parallelism of deterritorialized knowledge. Self-reference Adorno's Marxism and Schoenberg's Twelve Tone compositions. Writing cut-up, fold-in poems involving Michelle Cahill and William Burroughs .
A series of six, eight, ten, twelve perhaps. Phrases found in Cahill and completed randomly by Burroughs in The Soft Machine. A. 'There was silence, shadows moved into nightclubs.' B. 'The iceberg trapped a bottle of vomiting drug.' C. 'Walking by unclouded light from an IBM machine.' Elementary music develops an aleatory sophistication. The cerebellum has been connected to balance and fine movements but there is evidence that it is involved in multiple types of mental illness.
"Structural Alterations within Cerebellar Circuitry are Associated with General Liability for Common Mental Disorders," Adrienne L. Romer, Annchen R. Knodt, Renate Houts, Bartholomew D. Brigidi, Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi and Ahmad R. Hariri. Molecular Psychiatry, April 11, 2017 There are studies relating the cerebellum to musical ability and mathematical ability when studied in connection with the frontal lobes. Time and mathematics, music and madness. The unstable genius and one's childhood development. I found Michelle Cahill's poetry muscular and richly lyrical, migrating across continents and vast bodies of water.
Her two co-readers at King Lynn lacked anything new to say despite being the senior, establishment. It was like watching their damp, long, grey socks dry for an hour on old imposing radiators. Cahill mentions her belief in the four noble truths on her website. She was invigorating. I will be attending the Kings Lynn Poetry Festival this evening.
I've been writing about Harrison Birtwistle. Amazon sent me an advert for Franco bifo Beradi. His 'And. The Phenomenology of the End.' Harrison Birtwistles Three Sonatas for Nine Instruments is thought to be a failure.
It is too symmetric. The Isorhythm and the continuous line. The necessary interrupted by chance becoming the complex and chaos I believe. Written as interaction of talea and color. The primitive orchestrations. The throw of a dice. The composer as I=I. The wedge of notes as aesthetic. Monody. Arditti's performace of the String Quartets! The compositional idea is less obscured by the symphonic process. What is retained is clear. |
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