Asimov vs. Huxley

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Piano Etude No. 1: "Asimov vs. Huxley"

by Greg Anderson (2003)

 

 

"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."

-Isaac Asimov

 

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."

-Aldous Huxley

 

Each of the above quotes are translated into the binary system below. The top line is the Asimov quote and the bottom is the Huxley. Each “0” was then translated into an eighth rest and each “1” an eighth note. A serialized process helped to determine the notes for each respective line. The result is two conflicting musical lines created using both the languages of technology and humanity.

 

 

TRANSLATION to BINARY SYSTEM:

 

01010100011010000110010101110010011001010010

01010100011001010110001101101000011011100110

 

00000110100101110011001000000110000100100000

11110110110001101111011001110110100101100011

 

01110011011010010110111001100111011011000110

01100001011011000010000001110000011100100110

 

01010010000001101100011010010110011101101000

11110110011101110010011001010111001101110011

 

01110100001000000110111101100110001000000111

00100000011010000110000101110011001000000110

 

00110110001101101001011001010110111001100011

11010110010101110010011001010110110001111001

 

01100101001011000010000001100001011011100110

00100000011100000111001001101111011101100110

 

01000010000001110100011011110010000001100010

10010110010001100101011001000010000001110101

 

01110010011010010110011101101000011101000110

01110011001000000111011101101001011101000110

 

01010110111000100000011010010111010000100000

10000010000001101101011011110111001001100101

 

01100001011011100111100101110111011010000110

00100000011001010110011001100110011010010110

 

01010111001001100101001000000110100101110011

00110110100101100101011011100111010000100000

 

00100000011101000110111100100000011000100111

01101101011001010110000101101110011100110010

 

00100110100101100111011010000111010001100101

00000110011001101111011100100010000001100111

 

01101110001000000110100101110100001000000110

01101111011010010110111001100111001000000110

 

01010111011001100101011100100111100101110111

00100110000101100011011010110111011101100001

 

0110100001100101011100100110010100101110

01110010011001000111001100101110