“The Analytical Engine might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine… Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.” ShouldMightActionFoundSoundNumbersPiecesObjectsExpressionDegreesRelationHarmonyFundamentalsMusicalInstanceOperationsAbstractComplexityMutualEnginesMechanismCompositionAdaptationSusceptibleSupposingMutual FundMusical Composition Author:Ada Lovelace
“A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.” DiesSoundThousandDegreesDistanceCirclesGentleBreezeAiryLanguishTrill Book:Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)
“Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen to the obvious sounds, and the subtle soundsin your body, in the room, in the building, and outside. Listen as if you had just landed from a foreign planet and didnt know what was making these sounds. See if you can hear all sounds as music being played just for you. Even in what is called silence there is sound. To hear such subtle sound, the mind must be very quiet.” IfsKnowsMindBodySoundRoomsSilenceBuildingPlanetsListeningQuietDegreesMusic IsEarsObviousHearingYour BodyGiantsSubtleDishesJust ListenRadarBeing Played Author:Jan Chozen Bays
“I think of music a lot when I paint. The theme of it to a degree is music. So instead of literally putting in music or literally putting in a musical instrument, I use only a hint of the instrument, but the brocaded pattern is like a line of Bach because of its order and the leaves going up are like passages from Vivaldi, and the emphasis on drapery is where the sound comes.” ThinkingUseOrderSoundLinesDegreesInstrumentsPaintMusicalPatternsThemePassagesEmphasisHintsMusical InstrumentsVivaldi Author:Nelson Shanks
“No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.” MenDoeCertainSoundSubjectsDegreesJudgmentAddIntentionLegislationCompetentLegislatorsSound Judgment Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788 Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.” MenKindDoeArtSoundSimpleDegreesUniqueJokesArt IsIntelligentProofDivisionPrimitiveMonkeysBrutesSignaturesNature Of ManSimple TruthsTruismPrimitive Man Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album out. So I'd rather not even be tempted to listen to a bunch of other stuff with any degree of emersion in it, cause I just don't want to sound like anything else, so I kinda focus on my own music.” WantCausesStuffSoundMy OwnFocusDegreesAlbumsBunchTempted Author:John Legend