The Universe as Music

An interesting podcast.

The speaker is a physicist and jazz musician.

His basic argument is that the universe started as and remains a very large vibration.

A vibration is a ratio in movement, a relational entity, this makes it the relationship between things in process. This makes it performance, as is jazz. More on this later from Richard Schechner here who proposes we can understand anything as performance.

It supports my basic argument that art and science are complimentary. Science produces an abstract account of the objective world. Art a concrete account of the same world experienced subjectively. Whereas a physicist needs a Large Hadron Collider, all an artist needs is, in this case, a piano.

Art in Prison

I have been covering shifts at work and have missed posting, but I have been reading.

Jeremy Deller is a fave artist. See here, here, and here.

He did a performance piece with Brass Bands doing rave hits here and made great video about Rave Culture here.

This article about Deller working in prison with art making caught my interest.

Two quotes in it said a lot about how the arts can be beneficial simply through engagement, making art with other people. Simple engagement is all it needs.

The art room in prisons [..] is the only space you go into where things seem a little bit calmer and people are getting on with something.

Jeremy Deller

We’re looking at it for what it is – not who’s made it or what they’ve done.

John Costi

Art is Diverse Process

The value of diversity

This little rambling expedition was prompted by my reading this article below (click it to see it or here)

It is an article about a scientifically measurable phenomenon that occurs in both physical living and non-living systems and gives evidence that all order emerges out of disorder. It struck me that this could be seen to have some relevance to making art.

This is a thing that interests me because I believe art-making does this in the interaction between the physical living art-maker and the non-living materiality of the art object, as painting or piano. I am interested in this, like I am interested in the phenomena of ‘recursion’. Recursion as an idea can be found in art, science, maths, coding, ecology, language and experiential learning and I am interested in things that crop up in diverse settings. That this can describe a gas as well as a goose is what interests me. I like the idea that this may describe some underlying (or overbearing) principle that can be, with limitations, be applied universally.

To read more click page 2 below..

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