Guest guest Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 > so the answer AND the question is how do we play that ONE note? > > hmmm > L.E: You are the note. It's played as you live and silent when you die. That seems obvious to me. Anyone else? Larry Epston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 The Holy Trinity has created everything we know. Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons are the original Trinity. But they are truly generic, there is no difference between one atom and another, except in the number of their protons, neutrons, and electrons. Pythagoras was right; " numbers are everything. " But numbers are generic. Your atoms are generic, and so is your protein molecules. It's at the DNA level that uniqueness begins. But what is this uniqueness? It is a certain ordering of four basic proteins. Order means a sequence, a repetition of certain elements which occur in a predictable pattern. Music could be defined this way, so can those genes that makes your body unique. Your body is a tune that will never be song again. The notes? Well they are always the same. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 Nisargadatta , Pete S <pedsie5 wrote: > > > The Holy Trinity has created > everything we know. Protons, > Neutrons, and Electrons are the > original Trinity. But they are truly > generic, there is no difference > between one atom and another, > except in the number of their > protons, neutrons, and electrons. > Pythagoras was right; " numbers are > everything. " But numbers are generic. > > Your atoms are generic, and so > is your protein molecules. It's at > the DNA level that uniqueness > begins. But what is this uniqueness? > It is a certain ordering of four basic > proteins. Order means a sequence, > a repetition of certain elements which > occur in a predictable pattern. Music > could be defined this way, so can those > genes that makes your body unique. > Your body is a tune that will never be > song again. The notes? Well they are > always the same. > > Pete > so the answer AND the question is how do we play that ONE note? hmmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 Nisargadatta , " anabebe57 " <anabebe57 wrote: > > Nisargadatta , Pete S <pedsie5@> wrote: > > > > > > The Holy Trinity has created > > everything we know. Protons, > > Neutrons, and Electrons are the > > original Trinity. But they are truly > > generic, there is no difference > > between one atom and another, > > except in the number of their > > protons, neutrons, and electrons. > > Pythagoras was right; " numbers are > > everything. " But numbers are generic. > > > > Your atoms are generic, and so > > is your protein molecules. It's at > > the DNA level that uniqueness > > begins. But what is this uniqueness? > > It is a certain ordering of four basic > > proteins. Order means a sequence, > > a repetition of certain elements which > > occur in a predictable pattern. Music > > could be defined this way, so can those > > genes that makes your body unique. > > Your body is a tune that will never be > > song again. The notes? Well they are > > always the same. > > > > Pete > > > > > so the answer AND the question is how do we play that ONE note? > > hmmm > ************** " You are the sun I am the moon You are the words I am the tune Play me " -- Neil Diamond " Silver " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 25, 2006 Report Share Posted March 25, 2006 Nisargadatta , Pete S <pedsie5 wrote: > > > The Holy Trinity has created > everything we know. Protons, > Neutrons, and Electrons are the > original Trinity. But they are truly > generic, there is no difference > between one atom and another, > except in the number of their > protons, neutrons, and electrons. > Pythagoras was right; " numbers are > everything. " But numbers are generic. > > Your atoms are generic, and so > is your protein molecules. It's at > the DNA level that uniqueness > begins. But what is this uniqueness? > It is a certain ordering of four basic > proteins. Order means a sequence, > a repetition of certain elements which > occur in a predictable pattern. Music > could be defined this way, so can those > genes that makes your body unique. > Your body is a tune that will never be > song again. The notes? Well they are > always the same. > > Pete > Hi Pete.....as auld man of music myself I'd like to add a thought. When composing a piece, I am ever mindful of the value of the note of course. And in our Western form of structuring those notes, we have arbitrarily chosed certain intervals and harmonics to be the points of construction. In the full scale we have 12 tones that are then repeated in a higher or lower " key " . But truly sound is a continuum without " cutoffs " anywhere that dictate these notes as being true (whatever that means) notes while others are to be considered out of tune. In oreintal and mideastern and native American music and song we are presented with far more variety of tones, scales, chordals and appaggiatura. Even in the Blues (a personal favourite to play) and Jazz, we have " blue notes " , slides, slurs, crashes and slashes that can in no real way be written down as decisive in our notation form but can only be symbolized and suggested in manuscript and staff.All that being said I return to the idea that as I am composing, I am always mindful of the note's value in the above given terms. But the duration of each note and more importantly the space and silence BETWEEN and AFTER those notes is more pregnant with meaning and subtle nuance than any of the " soundings " of those notes.Those silent places hold more real VALUE than the audible notes themselves. The impotance of the Void then, I guess. It's what's NOT there that makes all the difference in the world between a great piece and the works of " hacks " . Whenever I am listening to and enjoying great music of any stripe, I will occasionally look at my friend Pepper our black lab and our two cats Charlie and Cleo and realize that to them, this old guy must appear to be performing some ascetic type of " doing " . To them, from all appearances, it's just all noise, and Very boring noise at that. If they do have thoughts of some nature they must think that I am enduring some sort of suffering, to be still and silent myself during those seemingly, to them, long durational periods while the piece unfolds. This thought leads me to believe that when we observe what appears to us as the simple beyond words lives of the ascetics, and whatever renunciations and sufferings that they endure for the sake of their Great Love, it is us who are missing something beautiful and are closing ourselves off to that Bliss Beyond Words. Yes the notes are the same, and from first note to last, from subquantum vacuum fluctuation to the largest galactic structure, there are no real things in themselves. And the Value is and the values are in ourselves. .........bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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