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-> CFP: Music & Mathematics
     by Jim Swan 

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Date: 8 Mar 2000 12:19:15 -0800
From: Jim Swan 
Subject: CFP: Music & Mathematics

Society for Literature and Science (SLS)
Atlanta, GA
5-8 October 2000

Fugues and Fractals: The Experience of Music and Mathematics

"May not Music be described as the Mathematic of sense,
Mathematic as the Music of reason? Thus the musician feels
Mathematic, the mathematician thinks Music."
         -- James Joseph Sylvester on Newton (c. 1860)

"The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form--
the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its
opposite--the staccato. All attempts to reconcile this discrepancy
are based on the hope that an accelerated staccato may appear
to our senses as a legato."
         -- Tobias Dantzig (1954)

Music and mathematics as media of knowledge and performance; the
phenomenology of musical and mathematical experience; theories of
harmony 
and number, rhythm and pattern, noise and order, composition and proof;
their relation to embodied cognition, to ideas of space-time,
(dis)continuity, and time-consciousness, to questions of aesthetics and
form

Two-page abstract by 22 March to Jim Swan, English Dept., 306 Clemens
Hall,
SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo NY 14260. Email: jswan@acsu.buffalo.edu
(attachments accepted).

For more information on SLS and the conference in Atlanta, visit the
website:
http://sls2000.lcc.gatech.edu/
also the SLS home website at Johns Hopkins Press:
http://www.press.jhu.edu/associations/sls/

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Society for Literature and Science (SLS)
Atlanta, GA
5-8 October 2000

Fugues and Fractals: The Experience of Music and Mathematics

"May not Music be described as the Mathematic of sense, 
Mathematic as the Music of reason? Thus the musician feels 
Mathematic, the mathematician thinks Music."
        -- James
Joseph Sylvester on Newton (c. 1860)

"The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form--
the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its 
opposite--the staccato. All attempts to reconcile this discrepancy
are based on the hope that an accelerated staccato may appear
to our senses as a legato."
        -- Tobias
Dantzig (1954)

Music and mathematics as media of knowledge and performance; the
phenomenology of musical and mathematical experience; theories of
harmony
and number, rhythm and pattern, noise and order, composition and proof;
their relation to embodied cognition, to ideas of space-time,
(dis)continuity, and time-consciousness, to questions of aesthetics and
form

Two-page abstract by 22 March to Jim Swan, English Dept., 306 Clemens
Hall, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo NY 14260. Email: jswan@acsu.buffalo.edu
(attachments accepted). 

For more information on SLS and the conference in Atlanta, visit the
website:
http://sls2000.lcc.gatech.edu/
also the SLS home website at Johns Hopkins Press:
http://www.press.jhu.edu/associations/sls/


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