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Re: Happy New Year
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Ron Pellegrino
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Jan 05, 2005 13:16 PST
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Jim:
Thanks for the leads. EDGE sounds like a great resource.
On Jan 4, 2005, at 9:25 PM, jim ruxton wrote:
| | Thanks Diana and Sergio for your kind words about Subtle Tech. It would
be great to have you both back. Ron maybe now that you say you are
close
to an airport you'll be able to make the journey to Toronto. Sounds
like
a great move you are making.
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Believe me, the trip's in my thoughts.
| | I'm feeling quite tied down by work
commitments here in Toronto. I'm hoping I can release a few of those in
2005 to allow me more freedom to move around.
I'm sure some of you are subscribers to the EDGE newsletter but for
those who aren't there was an interesting edition that just came out,
it's on their website. A question was posed to a number of scientists
and others. The question was "WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH
YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?" I thought it was an intriguing question and there
are some interesting answers. I'm particularly drawn to some of the
physicists responses (By the way Happy World Year of Physics) . As a
treat read Carlo Rovelli's http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_2.html#rovelli
idea on his belief of time being "an artifact of the approximation in
which we disregard the large majority of the degrees of freedom of
reality"
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Those degrees of freedom are when/where time becomes spatial. It's
another way of expressing multidimensionality. And that's why I
consider realtime composition to be such a mind-enriching exercise for
performing artists reared in a culture of linearity.
| | Also check out Lee Smolin's response
http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_5.html#smolin. Lots of great meta-reading
amongst all the responses. By the way talking about reading what was
everyones favorite book of 2004? Mine was definitely Sync by Stephen
Strogatz, a book describing the way different systems self synchronize.
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Synchronicity is one of those notions with a very long history of looks
and of course it relates to the "degrees of freedom" issue when/where
various vectors radiating from "real" events intersect (and that's true
even with major separations in clocktime. Arthur Koestler's Roots of
Coincidence is an older book on the subject but still good reading.
I'm looking forward to studying Sync.
| | It inspired me to do a lighting installation that reflects the transfer
of energy amongst natural systems.
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My favorite kind of piece. Let us know when you post the QT version.
| | It's showing in a gallery in Toronto
now but gets unplugged this weekend :( . I'll try to put a quicktime
up
somewhere so you can see it. All the best in 2005 and hope to see some
of you in person this year.
Jim
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Ron Pellegrino
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Jim:
Thanks for the leads. EDGE sounds like a great resource.
On Jan 4, 2005, at 9:25 PM, jim ruxton wrote:
<excerpt>Thanks Diana and Sergio for your kind words about Subtle
Tech. It would
be great to have you both back. Ron maybe now that you say you are
close
to an airport you'll be able to make the journey to Toronto. Sounds
like
a great move you are making.
</excerpt>
Believe me, the trip's in my thoughts.
<excerpt> I'm feeling quite tied down by work
commitments here in Toronto. I'm hoping I can release a few of those in
2005 to allow me more freedom to move around.
I'm sure some of you are subscribers to the EDGE newsletter but for
those who aren't there was an interesting edition that just came out,
it's on their website. A question was posed to a number of scientists
and others. The question was "WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH
YOU CANNOT PROVE IT?" I thought it was an intriguing question and there
are some interesting answers. I'm particularly drawn to some of the
physicists responses (By the way Happy World Year of Physics) . As a
treat read Carlo Rovelli's http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_2.html#rovelli
idea on his belief of time being "an artifact of the approximation in
which we disregard the large majority of the degrees of freedom of
reality"
</excerpt>
Those degrees of freedom are when/where time becomes spatial. It's
another way of expressing multidimensionality. And that's why I
consider realtime composition to be such a mind-enriching exercise for
performing artists reared in a culture of linearity.
<excerpt> Also check out Lee Smolin's response
http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_5.html#smolin. Lots of great meta-reading
amongst all the responses. By the way talking about reading what was
everyones favorite book of 2004? Mine was definitely Sync by Stephen
Strogatz, a book describing the way different systems self synchronize.
</excerpt>
Synchronicity is one of those notions with a very long history of
looks and of course it relates to the "degrees of freedom" issue
when/where various vectors radiating from "real" events intersect (and
that's true even with major separations in clocktime. Arthur
Koestler's <bold>Roots of Coincidence</bold> is an older book on the
subject but still good reading. I'm looking forward to studying
<bold>Sync.
</bold>
<excerpt>It inspired me to do a lighting installation that reflects
the transfer
of energy amongst natural systems.
</excerpt>
My favorite kind of piece. Let us know when you post the QT version.
<excerpt> It's showing in a gallery in Toronto
now but gets unplugged this weekend :( . I'll try to put a quicktime
up
somewhere so you can see it. All the best in 2005 and hope to see some
of you in person this year.
Jim
</excerpt>
Ron Pellegrino
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