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listening to serialist/dodecaphonic pieces such as babbitt's three compositions for piano:
and seeing what they have to do with supersymmetry in physics:
"He described this initial impetus as like discovering that they both were looking at the same intriguing specific tropical fish, with attempts to understand it leading to a huge ferocious formalism he characterizes as a shark that leapt out of the tank."
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Listening to Edgard Victor Achille Charles "The stratospheric Colossus of Sound" Varèse's Amériques for its inner and outer cosmism* & sublimation of "brutal sensuality and sheer noisiness" to high art. Happy 4th of July!
*"I did not think of Amériques as purely geographic, but as symbolic of discoveries - new worlds on earth, in the sky, or in the minds of men." - Varèse
"He described this initial impetus as like discovering that they both were looking at the same intriguing specific tropical fish, with attempts to understand it leading to a huge ferocious formalism he characterizes as a shark that leapt out of the tank."
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