Sarn is being baited?

Monz wrote:

***Imagine putting on your virtual-reality goggles, and building
a lattice of pitch relationships in 3- (or more?) dimensional
space around your body. Then you simply dance around inside
the lattice to create your music. The closer your hands (or
feet) come to any individual lattice-point, the louder it
becomes. Sort of a multi-dimensional harmonically quantized
theremin...

+++Joe, I've got to ask you something...

Did you have me in mind when you wrote this?

I have read a really cool book called "The Forth Dimension and how to get
there", by a guy called Rudy Rucker, and he went on to tell us this story
about A. Square in FLATLAND, etc...etc...

What I Do KNOW, however, is we, as humans are three dimensional beings, and
we haven't evolved the capacity to perceive four dimensions, and this is why
I feel that quadrophonics aren;t what they are cracked up to be, we don;t
have four ears, so what's the purpose of four speakers.

If I have heard correctly, though, our ear brain system is "quasi-four
dimensional", in that there is a slight filtering effect from the top of the
ear, and we can, in a sence, perceive this, thus hearing, is, in a relative
sence, more powerful than vision.

I would like to know, if, and when, and what you're opinions are as to the
effect of "neuro-hacking", and extending the perceptions this way, all the
intuition and parallelity of the human, all the acess, recall, speed, and
accuracy of the computer.

It's like this thing that a friend said the other day to me, that his kid
cousin said to him, about what it would be like to see another color beyond
the spectrum, that wasn;t a continuous hue of what could be seen already,
but was a definite shade of another relam of perception.

Much like seeing/perceiveing four dimensionally, we can abstractify a
concept like this, without the ability to have that experience first hand.

--Sarn.

--- In tuning@y..., Sarn Richard Ursell <thcdelta@i...> wrote:

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> Monz wrote:
>
> ***Imagine putting on your virtual-reality goggles, and building
> a lattice of pitch relationships in 3- (or more?) dimensional
> space around your body. Then you simply dance around inside
> the lattice to create your music. The closer your hands (or
> feet) come to any individual lattice-point, the louder it
> becomes. Sort of a multi-dimensional harmonically quantized
> theremin...
>
> +++Joe, I've got to ask you something...
>
> Did you have me in mind when you wrote this?

Hi Sarn,

No. I thought this up a little over two years ago, when I first
lived in San Diego. I had the simple idea of making a ratio
sound when its lattice-point was touched. Denny Genovese
suggested having the volume of the pitch reflect the distance
of the hand away from the lattice-point, an idea which reflected
his deep interest in the Theremin at the time.

The reason I posted this to the list when I did was explain
at the beginning of my post: it was my response to some fantasies
that had been posted about new types of flexibly-tuned pianos.

But maybe I'd had a hunch that you'd respond...

-monz