The Aesthetics and Beauty of Knowledge
Shih was the opposite of facts and raw information; shih was the elegance of knowledge, the insight and skill to organize knowledge into meaningful patterns. As an artist chooses colours or light to make her pictures, a master of shih chooses textures of knowledge – various ideas, myths, abstractions, and theories – to create a way of seeing the world. The aesthetics and beauty of knowledge – this was shih.
– David Zindell, The Broken God, 1993
Geek Attitude
The attitude thing is about flexibility, portability, creativity, sociability and jamming (ran out of suitable “ity” words!). It’s about improvising – in the practical and musical senses of the word; not getting tangled in boundaries and the “right” way to do things.
Definitely the only way to travel.
– Martin Delaney – “Laptop Music”.
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Musicians unlock mystery melody in chapel
Thomas Mitchell, a 75-year-old musician and ex-Royal Air Force code breaker, and his son, composer and pianist Stuart, recently unlocked a 600 year old mystery that had been encoded into the walls of the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland – the chapel where the last part of Dan Brown’s 2003 novel “The Da Vinci Code” is set.
The 213 boxes contain a selection of patterns that are now interpreted as a musical score, by studying them as so called Chladni Patterns or Cymatics.
Matching these patterns with musical notes corresponding to the same frequencies produced a tune which is called the Rosslyn Motet. Now the recovered melody was paired with traditional lyrics (translated into Latin) and recorded.
You can hear the result in this video (also linked from the musicians’ website).
Click here for the original Reuters article and here for a Sunday Mail article.
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