RE: [microsound] New York Times: Cell Sounds

[Paulo Mouat <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I think the practice of describing a cell as "emitting a 1000 Hz
> sound ... that is beautiful"  is a bizarre contrast of scientific
> reductionism and a lack of poetic imagination.

Perhaps the text should read "emiting a sound whose fundamental frequency is
1000 Hz".

> (just the banal limitations of a typically reductive scientific
> system for describing the world around us...)

Just the banal limitations of a typically reductive language system that
sometimes is taken too literally.

A4 on a tuned piano is still 440 Hz, and it is not a sinewave...

//p
http://www.interdisciplina.org/00.0/


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