The Gravity Well of Music (opens in new tab)

Art — the artist’s action consists in trying to enclose an infinity. A potential infinity within an actual finite. — Paul Valéry, Cahiers / Notebooks 2 A piece of music is, obviously, finite. It has a duration. Three minutes, nine minutes, forty-two minutes. It begins, moves, repeats, departs, resolves, ends. We can divide it into […]