April Fools, Wagner, UNABOM, Xfiles, Quantum Mechanics...

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
> *************************
>


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