The stuff of music is energy. The flow of energy is based on a difference in potential that creates the conditions for symbiosis, exchange, and synergy. Energy flows in waves subject to complex transformations determined by the fields with which it interacts. Music is an articulator and transposer of waves emanating from the center of individual fields. Depending upon their relative transparency, those fields can function as lenses focusing and organizing cosmic energy in living forms continuously adjusting their characteristics according to the current state of the collective field.
Music is always one field in a collection of fields.
To have maximum impact, music must organize itself to include the participation of all positively biased systems and free elements. A process that encourages its subsystems to offer personal perspectives in the way of positively biased contributions to the art of living sound needs no external effort to retard its decay, Internally it will generate the form and power to resonate truly and to reverberate well in the past and future. Real-time is all we know. Clock-time is all we cannot know because it is impossible to measure anything with a tool larger than the thing being measured. Instantaneity, the body of ephemeral forms, is here and gone simultaneously.