Qualities and music
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How does a new quality of melody emerge from a collection of arbitrary notes, since each note in itself does not contain the melody? Is this similar to the property of “liquidity” that emerges from molecules (which supposedly have a liquid property, unlike, for example, a soul, which is a different essential quality from a collection of particles of matter)?
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This is an interesting link. I would relate it more to the relationship between frames and dynamics, which was discussed in my last three columns. Each note individually is a frame, and their combination one after the other creates something dynamic that has its own quality. This is an excellent example of the phenomenon I was discussing there. On second thought, this is not really similar to fluidity, because here I myself build the music from the individual notes (I decide on the order and relationships between them and the rhythm and tone, etc.). In fluidity there is a collection of identical molecules that accumulate together without me arranging them, and the very accumulation creates something with its own properties. Music is more similar to an organism (discussed, for example, in the column on the work of a builder on Shabbat) than to a liquid.
I would link this to a more precise matter in my opinion.
Zeno's paradox about the point and the line.
A line, according to the geometric definition, consists of several points.
But:
A point is lengthless — it has no size, it has no dimension.
So, how is it possible that if we take several points that have no size — we will create something that does have size (a line)?
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