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Old 19-September-2008, 06:57 PM
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This is just another excursion into serialism. It may carry information about harmonic relationships (strictly in the musical sense), but will offer no recoverable information about the solar system to the listener. The tonal assignments are "designed" but ultimately arbitrary, since they can be designed according to whatever pattern the composer decides to rationalize. In fact, it offers no way of perceiving our cosmic neighborhood in any direct experiencial sense (because the listener has no way of decoding all the information), but if you combined it with a pitch-keyed decoding system that translated the sound into graphic models as it played, you might have something interesting in multimedia.
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