source file: mills2.txt Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 03:57:25 -0700 Subject: Re: April Fools, Wagner, UNABOM, Xfiles, Quantum Mechanics... From: Atlas Eclipticalis I spent the whole day thinking about the music theory arguments surrounding the composition technique of Richard Wagner, specifically wheather or not the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde is in a tonal key. This is what we are talking about now in my theory class at De Anza. (weak disclaimer: Im a student). I don't mean to single Reinhard's article out, but it connected with my thoughts about music (among other things) so Id thought Id share. I welcome all responses, and they will all be included in future considerations of this topic by me, and would be much appreciated. I dont know about the big Wagner music list, so cross-posting would definitely be appreciated. This is in response to Johnny Reinhardt's in Tuning Digest 1044. Heavens Gate, imminent doom, the first of april? Aka, is quantization geometry reincarnate? Good April Fools must be ernetsly sought out, you say. Well I found a bizzare one today on television, the great source you mentioned. I dont think its a joke though, and Im sitting here contemplating the universe because I just flipped out when I realized I solved a crime: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I was watching the ch2 news, right after seeing a time-warped episode of the Xfiles. The story was of a man who escaped from prison this morning and kidnapped a man named Brian Kelly. The journalist showed video of Brian Kelly being interviewed publicly. Then, the news described the escaped convict as a master of disguises and has been known to dress as a womam, and was in the AIDS unit of the prison in Vacaville, CA. The convict, David Anderson, was then shown dressed as a woman, along with about four other pictures of him in other disguises from the police archive. The news explained Kelly's story as Kelly was kidnapped near the prison and they went to a motel. However, when I saw the faces flash by in the montage of the guises of David Anderson, I recognized the face of Brian Kelly, and linked the two people forever like anti-particles. It was the mug shot of a false face that tipped it off. The face of Brian Kelly belongs to the elaborate and complicated imagination of a convicted murderer, David Anderson. The avatar of Brian Kelly was empty and without a soul. He complained that he was afraid to call the police at first. He faulted fear. This ocurrs at many conceptual levels. Almost boggles the mind. I think this reporting television journalist has created the perfect and sweetest "scoops" of the century, although it was incomplete without the 'anti-matter' like link between Brian Kelly and David Anderson. That is basically it, but since Im also in Logic class this quarter, I would like now talk about that some more. The conclusion to my argument is that this man needs to be arrested because To complete the last link of my story, they would need to match the true identity of Brian Kelly with the escaped prisoner's. The media story of a kidnapping was part of the "plan" in the convicts mind. It is now time for the scene in Scooby-Doo to take off the mask. It doesn't exactly end there. No, this is where the universe starts collapsing, and we start to get into time travel and stuff. I was just watching X files right before the news tonite. The episode was about a man who becomes 'enlightened' frightfully by inventing and manufacturing a chemical substance which apparently freezes the body to 0K (impossible in this universe) and allows unrestricted travel through time, because matter is transformed by the infinities to "Tachyon" energy particles, which travel both backward and forward in time because of their absolute smallness and unity of existence (devoide of creation, the energy perspective of newton's conservation of mass and energy). In this Universe, only unities and singularities exhibt strange and odd perplexing time-domain characteristics. For this reason, it makes an great TV show. Any way, this guy shoots up this freezing agent in the future and slips back about 5 hours and tries to stop himself from created what he did. Notice creation is involved. We said that being devoid of creation (not in the religious sense, but the newtonioan) was a characteristic of only the absolutely small (energy, 0Kelvin, the absence of energy, which denies conservation). As you can see indeed the loops created by these arguments cycle deeper and deeper in to the infinities they describe, like a snake nourishing itself eternally on its yummy tail. A very good marketing ploy for Silicon Valley drones is used by the television media to feature logically inquisitive programming (such as self-reference, infinite loops, quantum mechanics, astrophysics), plus familiar internet distributed "urban folklore" issues of debate on alt.legends.urban-folklore (like cryobiology), occult numerology (I quote from the show, 'I wrote when I was 23..'). On the show, the man who invented time travel by evil and murderous means (it happened in a different universe) comes back to prevent himself from doing it. They first meet outside. The man slipped back in time and he appeared older, suffering from the effects of super-light-speed travel. At any point in the show, one might refute the logic as completely invalid because of the infinite loops, but you have to remember its television, and it is a dramatic representation of a scientific reality which does actually ocurr. The broadest term I can think of strait off is 'string theory'. This gentelman represents an infinitely massive AND nearly absolutely small event that ocurrs regularly. Basiclly its a long string of energy which climbs through different universes, or different dimentions. Imagine 26 dimentions and 11 universes. The string crawls in and out near the worm hole's in time, black holes, as described by Steven Hawking in _A Brief History of Time_ (1998). This new york times best seller is written by a man most people claim is "enlightened" in possibly the same way the mad scientist in the X files was, or more directly, in the same way that the Sqaure of Abott's _Flatland_ (1898) was enlightened by the Sphere from the land of solids (three physical dimentions). The appearance of the string in our universe is evidenced by anti-matter pairs which occur very near singularities like black holes. Acording to Hawking, black holes give off measurable photon like gamma-ray radiation. This is an energy they emit because near a black hole, pairs of short-lived anti-particles pop into existence from apparently nothing. They live an extremely, and near absolutely short life, but it is sizable enough to rule out infinitude error. According to the rule of gravity, the particles coming into existence out of seeming nothingness must be affected by the nearby singularity, the black hole. Its pretty massive, its mass distributed across all the dimensions in an infinitely small space. One of these particles may indeed fall prey to the black hole, but the other escapes into the night sky as gamma-ray radiation. The wave pattern of the radiation is retained from the original pan-dimentional "string" it formerly belonged to. Pan-dimentiality and enlightened knowledge are deeply connected with Hawkings' reports, which are similar in inquisitive nature as Flatland is. They both regard pan-dimentiality as an ultimate question, and science for entertainment (literary devices, drama, personification). These lead to logically invalid increases in order and level of structure. Or do they, well I dont really know that. A not-so-final point is that all the arguments here revert to infinitudes, except for the last it appears. That is the logical background of the so-called grand unification theory member called 'string theory'. Its strength is in the admission of finite measurement at the core of logical statement, which is the anti-matter pair, one emitted and measured, the other sucked to visit other dimentions in a black hole. As a point of coincidence, I had been flipping through Hawkings' book less than two hours previous to viewing the television show and news report, explaining the String Theory and the chapter called 'why black hole's ain't so black'. It gets wierder. Since Im a music major: Richard Wagner created a wonderfully playful artform in the romantic era of musical theory. His music and ideas about drama and life itself influenced and created a perspective for ironically-named great men: Nietzche "God is Dead", Hitler (_Mein Kampf_), Straus (_Also Sprach Zarathustra_, Death and Transfuguration_). Dozens of present day popular images also fit under Wagnerian Art, such as Kubric's _2001_ film about Possibility of Pan Dimentional enlightenment. Wagner was a student of the classics, and was no doubt knowledgable by Zoroastrianistic and Hindu traditions regarding pan-dimentional enlightenment, avatarism, and reincarnation as their 'unification theory'. The genius of Wagner by this argument is that since its so entertaining to study this stuff and create with it, you can acheive anything want, and become rich and famous. Modern examples like musical ensemble KMFDM(A drug against war), Einsteurzende Neubauten (_Hamlet Machine_), Kubric (film direction), John Williams (Jaws, Star Wars music), mimic the initial success that Wagner enjoyed as a National Socialist afficionado. The stickieness of these arguments are they they tend to duplicate themselves easily, and thats why there are so important to modern day society. People will soon be confused about reality. A friend of a friend is filming a movie, for which I will produce the sound track, about a Jesuit involved in a church cover-up of news of a "companion" space craft trailing comet Hale-Bopp. Its made its pass a few days ago (Reality has entered the scene again). In looping arguments, the point of being sucked in intellectually is called the "pattern" by philosophers. In eventual, momentary existence, we call it coincidence, paralellism, and according to Douglas Hofstadter (_Godel, Escher, Bach: the Eternal Golden Braid_), isomorphism. The essential looping argument is born when the argument gains the ability to reason about itself, says Hofstadter. In symbolic logic, this is described by the meta-mathematics of Godel. In sound form, this is described by Bach's _Art of the Fugue_. In visual form, this is represented in the work of MC Escher. When an art form includes all senses of the goings about of daily life, that is a "Wagnerian" ideal. It is complete because it has the ability to talk about itself. Therefore you can never have completeness and consistency together in natural systems. What you get is a choice between the two. Either you laugh or you don't, right? In Bach's case, I laugh, its very beautiful, and worthwile art. In the case of the UNABOMer, I remain paranoid and skeptical, not laughing. "Blood has been shed" says a kidnapper in the movie "Fargo". Robert Anton Wilson wrote a play called "Reality is only what you Make of It". My email program just crashed but thank goodness its set for direct to disk composition, so I didn't just loose 3 hours of mindless ranting. Anywho- Some folks from San Diego went nuts and bought into the story, which originated as a folklore tale on the internet. Heavan's Gate was an internet publishing company. It might have been a pan dimentional marketing ploy to get more people over to the site, which still serves an enourmous amount of people everyday around the world; this is just like any other conspiracy and enlightened super-logical devoted man might create, and be trapped in forever (in death). This apparent Hellish eternal damnation to the world of cries and moans (a Masonic Parsifal reference) was dramatically played out by detectives in the X Files show I saw tonite. The mad scientist who goes back to meet himself five hours in the past, eventually anhiliates himself by joining with himself (anti-matter particles "anhiliate" when the meet each other and go back into the nether-reaches of other dimentions). So his character explains to himself before he anhiliates with himself that he has "seen" everything. "Imagine what it would be like to know everything that has ever happened and ever will happen" he says. His demise is dramatically powerful, as the two men draw nearer to each other, moaning and wailing louder and louder and closer and closer until they both spontaneously combust (anhiliation logically) and not a trace of their physical beings is left behind in this Universe. I was discussing the possibility of time travel with my fiance, who is studying oriental phylosophy and medicine academically. Her question was it could it exist, because why couldn't it? It was completely puzzling to both of us, and I could only explain it away with the looped argument that since time travel could possibly destroy the universe as we know it in a paradox situation (Shades of fascism, Hitler) Using loops as natually occuring logical entities (be they valid or invalid), is an important spring-tool when developing a wholesome and organic view of "life, the universe, and everything." --Douglas Adams quoted from _The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy_, which incedentally is about how the planet earth is a project of two pan-dimentional beings incarnated as a pair of white mice to discover the meaning of life. I say, when brought back to reality, the fruits of such a project would be combined and unified with James Lovelock's "Gaia Theory" of earth as a super-organism. What is the meaning of life you ask? This is an actually news item from an National Public Radio news item: From NPR: [10.] [FORTY-TWO] - We explain that the preliminary results of a new measurement of the so-called Hubble Constant, taken by radio telescopic means at Cambridge University in England is 42. The Hubble Constant determines the speed at which galaxies are receding from each other, and thus tells us the age of the universe from the time of the Big Bang. It so happens that Douglas Adams, in the book and radio series "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in 1978 had a massive computer calculate the meaning of life and the answer was: 42. (2:15) (IN STEREO) The news story in question was found during an internet search for "Douglas Adams" and was written by NPR in 1997. The Adams' text explains dramatically that the giant computer is actually Earth, which gets destroyed minutes before completing its sole computation, in the grand fashion of good science fiction, it is knocked out to make way for a hyper-space bypass. This hyper-space bypass resembles the theory of Black holes as worm holes through dimentions, and the string theory, where mass travels in and out of our dimentional planes. Master of Disguises. I would also, for the sake of my English 1b class, relate the whole shooting match to the UNABOMer case and Logging Industry. Now the UNABOMer went nuts and killed a whole lot of people who were big players in anti-socialist attitudes toward nature, such as non-sustainable plunder of natural resources, which the UNABOMer explains in his so-called Manifesto. In the traditionally apocalyptic manifesto style, the UNABOMer details his thought processes (delusion of reality) in order to validate extreme action as a means toward the goal of socialization of resources: ultimate sustainability, which is completely inconsistent with our present lifestyles (garbage cycles as replacement ecosystems). We will attempt to jail this man Theodore Kazinsky, accused of being the UNABOM suspect. He was a notorious Master of Disguises Kazinsky is merely an incarnation of the Wagnerian Artform, also known as the Unified Theory of Aristotelian Arts, according to music theoreticians. This strange coincidence is another piece of evidence toward the usefullness of organic-type logical arguments in recognizing universal pattern. The ultimate goal of life the universe and everything is thus said to be (although still in process) the discovery of the answer to everything, a single piece of logic that just about sums it up for this universe, such as the many incarnations of Forcess*Accelleration which have been cropping up since Newton. These examples include The UNABOMer's manifestation of this time-reaching Master of Guise ("The Master" in BBC's Doctor Who science fiction program) is both that of Ted Kazinsky and Wassily Kadinsky, a polish painter, whose work degenerated into what is now termed "abstract" painting. He recalled having a 'conversion' experience and revelation (enlightenment anyone?) after coming home one night after seeing the premiere of a Shoenberg opera (Wagnerian) or was it the other way around. Anyways, this is where I need to do some research instead of typing, hehehe. (Resist the Temptation to Code, programming teachers tell me) In the BBC Doctor Who series, the Doctor is a series of pan-dimentional incarnations who patrol the universe for violators of space-time continuum policy, which is governed by his race, called "Time-Lord". An errant timelord called the Master (an enlighted being dressed in black, who speaks in circles, and is the parallel of the Fallen Angel in christian theology) is the usuall suspect for Doctor Who, who's job it is to foil the Master's criminal plans to rule the universe by exploiting time travel. The X-files episode on tonite had a Doctor-Who-like flavor. The Fallen Angel is associated with infinite hell in conservative christian theologies, just as the mad scientist had ended his life by entering the infinite by flaming spontaneosly (a "hellish" and terrific way to go). A recent communication event between artists of this type of logic was billed as follows on an MIT internet document (http://www-mitepress.mit.edu/LEA/bkissues/lea2-6.txt) file quoted here The conference is being organized in commemoration of the 200th birthday of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers. It will be articulated with these suggested themes: - a Multiform Activity: Castel as a Pedagogue, Physicist, Zoologist, Mathematician, Esthete, Tactician, Journalist, Polygraphic Designer, Musicologist; - the "Invention" of the Ocular Harpsichord: Resonance and Interference: Antecedents and Predecessors, Epistemological and Philosophical Foundation (a certain vision of the world, a "Jesuit" Physics, Descartes/Newton's debate, some about Leibniz Theological debates, etc...); - Castel and his Ocular Harpsichord facing his contemporaries: + Reception: books, papers and others evidences + The Prestigious Witnesses: Montesquieu, Rameau, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, D'Alembert, Telemann, Geminiani, Goethe, + Reception of Castel's work abroad, + Modern set-back of Castel's false colour/sound analogy direct repetition; - The Posterity of the Ocular Harpsichord A tradition in Bordeaux's Country? (Manslon, Alexandre Durand), + Synesthetic Art (symbolists, Charles Beaudelaire, Alexandre Scriabine, Paul Klee. Man Ray, Eric de Hauleville, Walt Disney, Jean Michel Jarre, Kadinsky, etc.), + Esthetical Theories, + Scientific Theories of Coloured Hearing Synesthesia, + Technical Aspects and realisation: two centuries of Technological Experimentation, + New instruments to perform Colour-Music. Now the connections described here are not to promte a "new" theory of mine, but is an articulation of this style and fasion of art which has become a universe of reality for many brilliant minds, such as Wagner and Hawking, and how it has wreaked havok in the case of Hitler, and the astounding UNABOM coincidences (especially if you liked the similar names Kazinsky and Kadinsky). That is a mere tool of this type of argument; speaking about the argumentation procedure is also a mark of natural infinite-loop argumentation. Regarding the Escaped Convict story, Im wondering if they have solved this case, or maybe this document would be usefull to the authorities. The current media-government cycle would be well served by a solution to an apparent physical duality created by information alone conflicts with the more probable case that the kidnapping victim is none other than master of disguise David Anderson. If it is of immediate interest, the apropriate calls should be made, because I don't want to spontaneously combust. THE END (almost) signed by Richard E Barber, student of De Anza College ribarbe@garlic.com If you need help with my information sources, that can be resolved through email. Im just writing this crap off the top of my head. I spend most of my free time thinking about music in the same way as this. The stuff about the convict is reality by anyone's guess, so here it is: Here are the actual news items as listed in Yahoo! today (Sunday) file quoted here Friday April 11 6:02 PM EDT Prison escapee may be in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, April 11 (UPI) _ Police say a convicted murderer is believed to have kidnapped a Dixon man only hours after his Thursday morning escape from the California Medical Facility in Vacaville. Officer Michael Fernandez says today (Friday) that convict David Wayne Anderson approached Robert Brian Kelly at a Raley's Supermarket in Vacaville to ask where the nearest big city was. Fernandez says Anderson then abducted Kelly and drove to San Francisco. A manager at the Royal Motel on Lombard Street says Anderson and Kelly checked into the motel about 1:30 p.m. Thursday, using Kelly's identification and credit card. Manager J. R. Garon says Kelly came to the desk Friday morning to report that he had been robbed of his wallet and pickup truck. Garon said Kelly, who appears to be in his mid-30s, was afraid to call police because he feared Anderson would hurt his family. Kelly said he had been bound to a chair until he was able to free himself with scissors. Anderson had been at the prison north of San Francisco since 1993, serving a term of 22 years to life for second-degree murder, robbery, grand theft and possession of stolen property. He was convicted in San Diego County and had been incarcerated since 1981. Authorities say he was transferred to the prison's AIDS treatment after testing HIV positive. Anderson was last seen during a routine prison head count at 5 a.m. Thursday, and his escape was discovered at about 7:15. Police say Anderson placed a dummy in his bed, then used something to cut through the bars on the second-floor window. He lowered himself with a bedsheet, then cut his way through a fence, which was not electrified. _- Copyright 1997 by United Press International. All rights reserved. ext file Friday April 11 3:59 PM EDT Convicted killer may be in San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, April 11 (UPI) _ Police are investigating whether a convicted killer who escaped from the AIDS ward at Vacaville state prison was responsible for the alleged kidnapping of a Dixon man that ended at a San Francisco motel. Police say a man told them today (Friday) that 36-year-old David Wayne Anderson had kidnapped him, driving him to San Francisco and leaving him bound and gagged at the Royal Motel. The victim said Anderson stole his wallet and burgandy pickup truck. Anderson escaped from the California Medical Facility's AIDS unit by cutting through window bars and lowering himself to the ground with a bedsheet. Anderson had been at the prison north of San Francisco since 1993, serving a term of 22 years to life for second-degree murder, robbery, grand theft and possession of stolen property. He was convicted in San Diego County and had been incarcerated since 1981. Prison authorities say he was transferred to the prison's AIDS treatment after testing positive for the deadly disease. Anderson was last seen during a routine prison head count at 5 a.m. Thursday, and his escape was discovered at about 7:15. Police say Anderson placed a dummy in his bed, then used something to cut through the bars on the second-floor window. He lowered himself with a bedsheet, then cut his way through a fence, which was not electrified. final file Thursday April 10 4:02 PM EDT Dangerous inmate reported missing VACAVILLE, Calif., April 10 (UPI) _ Officials at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville say (Thursday afternoon) a dangerous prisoner has escaped from the high-security prison. Officials say 36- year-old David Anderson, who was convicted of second-degree murder in 1981, was discovered missing from the prison for physically and mentally disabled inmates at 7:15 a.m. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs 150 pounds and has red hair and two teardrop-shaped tattoos under his right eye. (Contact: prison, 707-448-6841) end of files. On Sun, 13 Apr 1997 tuning@ella.mills.edu wrote: > TUNING Digest 1044 > > Topics covered in this issue include: > > 1) RE: Neanderthal > by Johnny Reinhard .. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Topic No. 1 > > Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 17:21:11 -0400 (EDT) > From: Johnny Reinhard > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: RE: Neanderthal > Message-ID: > > Yes, Gary, we were saying the same thing in different ways. The only > exception might be that "visually" at least what I saw was pretty > equidistant. The odds that the Neanderthal had worked out an "equal > temperament" are larger than the New York Lottery on a high yield night, > though. > > Spoofs on April 1st must be more earnestly looked for, I'm afraid. New > York's Channel 1 on cable started its news segment with Mayor Guiliani > taking Janet Reno's spot in D.C. It was rendered professionally and > seemed quite believeable...until he said "April's Fools!" > > An example that got my craw (and still disappoints me) was an early Ear > Magazine article purporting to divine the tuning used by Benjamin Franklin > in his sole string quartet. Even aside from the question of authorship of > the string quartet (no longer thought to be Ben Franklin's in > musicological circles), this was a non-April's Fools day article that > pretended 5-limit just intonation for the piece. > > Sadly, I believed this "article," surrounded by a legacy of valuable Ear > articles. I caught up with the admitted perpetrater at > a La Monte Young concert that we were both performing in. > > La Monte later told me afterward he felt bad that he had taught the > just intonation principles to the "funster" in composition lessons. The > ideas were lifted and used fancifully under a false name to claim a > false discovery. Perhaps if he had written his spoof on a clear April > 1st I would be more accepting of his deception. > > Johnny Reinhard > American Festival of Microtonal Music > 318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW > New York, New York 10021 USA > (212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495 > reinhard@idt.net > > > ------------------------------ > > Topic No. 2 > > Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:24:59 -0500 (CDT) > From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison) > To: tuning > Subject: RE: Neanderthal > Message-ID: > > >Yes, Gary, we were saying the same thing in different ways. The only > >exception might be that "visually" at least what I saw was pretty > >equidistant. > > I stand corrected now that you mention it: The picture shows the > distance to the hole at what they believe to be the break point toward the > head-joint side to much smaller than the distance between the two intact > holes. But the distance between what they postulate to be the foot-joint > end to the closest intact hole is, as you pointed out, is only slightly > smaller that between the two intact holes. > ------------------------------ > > End of TUNING Digest 1044 > ************************* > End of Information from ribarbe@garlic.com, signature information follows. --- E am not especially clever, just basically very average, E merely try to maximise thee effectiveness of whatever gifts or abilities E have by focusing them towards what E want to happen. 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