The illusion is that we exist in a sensory information ocean with interacting currents seemingly coming from everywhere, inside and outside of us, in a never ending progression. Any modeling resolution that is low enough to show discontinuities will not communicate essence to the lay person regardless of how motivated or intelligent they might be. Our deepest levels of understanding come from being literally moved by those interacting currents of information in ways that cause us to resonate with the dynamic forms of the structures generating the currents of information. Learning what it takes to breathe life into dynamic light imagery is what drives my work in visual music. Life needs both periodicity and chaos to exist.
Periodicity creates the identifiable forms that extend through time.
Of course, for the perception of every form there is a critical band in which the periodic structure can be subject to relatively small chaotic variations but still be perceived as a identifiable periodic structure. Life is born of and is fed by the difference in potential, the tension between periodicity and chaos. What brings music to life is the spirit of the performers sculpting the near-fields of chaos to create periodic and ephemeral forms that have the power to move other life forms, most importantly human beings. 1996-97 Ron Pellegrino and Electronic Arts Productions. All rights reserved.