Science can not reproduce all phenomena, nor replicate consciousness. It cannot be free of human error, and it can be misused and misinterpreted for non-scientific ends.
Still, science can be an art, and a means to exploration of ideas and concepts impossible to reach otherwise; I, like numerous artists, am indebted to scientific method and study for the capabilities and inspirations technology provides. Imagination expands with technology, as does science, mutatis mutandis, with imagination. There is often a great deal of confusion related to the experimental in music and sound, simply because such works are, in many cases, ill-defined and the result of so-called "spontaneous" events. While these certainly have their place, for works to be the outcome of experimental processes, they must be considered in the abstract, that is to say, in the postulation of theories, and follow procedures designed to be replicated in order to attain desirable outcomes.
It cannot be overly stressed that this sense of a fundamentally scientific approach is at work in every Black Mountain School composition and recording. These are works created by intent, not accident.
Still, science can be an art, and a means to exploration of ideas and concepts impossible to reach otherwise; I, like numerous artists, am indebted to scientific method and study for the capabilities and inspirations technology provides. Imagination expands with technology, as does science, mutatis mutandis, with imagination. There is often a great deal of confusion related to the experimental in music and sound, simply because such works are, in many cases, ill-defined and the result of so-called "spontaneous" events. While these certainly have their place, for works to be the outcome of experimental processes, they must be considered in the abstract, that is to say, in the postulation of theories, and follow procedures designed to be replicated in order to attain desirable outcomes.
It cannot be overly stressed that this sense of a fundamentally scientific approach is at work in every Black Mountain School composition and recording. These are works created by intent, not accident.
