Ruminations on Electronic Music and Lattice-Gas Cellular Automata
Ian Simmons, “a science writer and music fanatic” interwieved in 2002 Mr. Attali, author of Noise, about his inluental book. Jacques Attali said:
“Globalisation in itself is a consequence of new technologies. There is no globalisation without technologies. Technologies can bring the best and the worst. They can help us create a wonderful world, but can also destroy it. They can produce wonderful new music, but also terrifying, powerful noises.” [Making sense of noise by Ian Simmons (Ian Simmons talks to Jacques Attali)]
At the end of 1980s I began to put thought into an area that I love to think about, into Vortex Dynamics. I also began hearing albums like OXYGEN and EQUINOX by Jean-Michel André Jarre [http://www.jarreonline.com/] at this time. However, having experience with the prior, electronic music was more than just an addition of theory of Vortex State; it was like being part of it! [e.c., the album title Les Chants Magnétiques (Magnetic Fields) makes the connection between ?-modeling and ?-music in a more than metaphorical way]. The Jarre’s captivating, immersive sound has affected my identity formation.
Acoustic Cyberspace has changed a lot since the 80s and, as Erik Davies wrote, “with each significant mutation in electronic technologies <…> there was an eruption of utopian energy”:
“MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface and has been the rage among electronic musicians throughout its six year existence. It is a powerful tool for composers and teachers alike. It allows musicians to be more creative on stage and in the studio. It allows composers to write music that no human could ever perform. But it is NOT a tangible object, a thing to be had. MIDI is a communications protocol that allows electronic musical instruments to interact with each other.” [Read more here]
“This work containts all minor, minor 7th, major, dominant 7th chords. It may start with every 4th measure, but can`t stop anywhere. It was created algorithmicaly under impression of Jean Michel Jarre music.” [Infinity by Igor A. Vogt ]
The electronic sound has changed a lot, but I wonder to see how the Theory of Fluids has changed too:
“Hydrodynamics is a peculiarly interesting and frustrating branch of physics, because it ought to have been wrapped up by the middle of the nineteenth century, but looks like it will continue to be intractable well into the twenty-first.”Lattice-Gas Cellular Automata: Simple Models of Complex Hydrodynamics by Daniel H. Rothman and Stéphane Zaleski
Looking back, I remember that in 1996 I just remembered something that happened a long time ago while I was listnening to Back to the Universe Radio Show by DJ Martin Landers. The things I remembered were the Cellular Automata [I’ve been knowing about the Conway’s Game of Life since my schooldays]. Was it just a coincidence that [1] and [2] were the books which I read then with a great interest? And then came the times of Wolfram Tones.
As Jacques Attali put it, “Music foretells the evolution of society because changes in musical paradigms happen more quickly than in social organisations. The scope of possibilities is explored much more rapidly in music than in the social infrastructure. Therefore, the mutation in the organisation of noise, in the nature of sounds, in its technology, helps one to understand and predict the evolution of the society as a whole.” [Read more at http://www.nthposition.com/]
- ?????? ?. ?. ????? ? ?????????. ???????????????? ????? ???????. ?., 1991. [In Russian: Time and Computer: A Nongeometrical Interpretation by A.M. Anisov (TIME AS A COMPUTATION PROCESS)]
- ??????? ?. , ???????? ?. ?????? ????????? ?????????: ???. ? ????. - ?.: ???, 1991 - 280 ?. [Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modeling (Scientific Computation) (Hardcover)
by Tommaso Toffoli & Norman Margolus ] - Outline of Jacques Attali, Noise by Theodore Gracyk
- The Necks: Aether by Bob Burnett
- Aether - ?Aethersound?
P.S. “With 80 million+ record sales under his belt, Jean Michel Jarre probably isn’t too bothered what the critics say about him - which is probably for the best, as it’s rarely kind.” [Read more on Perfect Five: http://perfectfive.blogspot.com/]