Music

Lineage

A founder, dissected by hand.

Offspring

AfterlisteningLingering Ear, Postaudia expectansby symbiosisThe Shaping PauseJointing Pause, Pausiphonia articulansby symbiosisShared BreathChoir Lung, Synpnoe choricaby pollination

Food web

• pollinated its dispersal → the kernel of Breath
  Music travels by ear, voice to voice; Breath's premise is a rhythm kept without thinking, and a sung phrase sets exactly when the singer must breathe. The vector can carry the premise.
• feeds the output of Breath → its intake
  Breath gives voice and song; Music feeds on vibration, and the voice is its first instrument.
• homology its mechanism resembles the mechanism of Breath
  Both are rhythms that bodies fall into, the breathing cycle and the musical pulse.
• friction its decay rubs against the decay of Breath
  Breath cannot be stored or held; Music, grown too familiar, wears into background. One fails by stopping, the other by repeating.
• feeds the output of Silence → its intake
  Silence makes audible what was masked and gives what follows its weight; Music feeds on a listener's expectation, which a silence holds open.
• feeds its output → the intake of Silence
  Music makes time audible; Silence feeds on the ending of every other sound, and music's endings are the most shaped of all.
• homology its boundary resembles the boundary of Silence
  Both are kept by a frame, Silence by a rest or a rule, Music by order in ratios and beats. The rest in a score belongs to both.

Kin

same kind in Roget Amber, Breath, Chiaroscuro, Chimera, Entelechy, Silence, Vertigo, Shared Breath

same kind in Wilkins Geomancy, Innocence, Patience, Hesychology, Subtractive Phenomenology

same kind in WordNet Chiaroscuro, Echolalia, Prophecy, Syllable, Symbol, Babelhum, Poetry

same kind in Llull Chiaroscuro, Faith, Geomancy, Innocence, Patience, Ritual, Syllable, Symbol, The Shaping Pause, The Festival Calendar, Subtractive Phenomenology

same phylum Entelechy, Memory, Nostalgia, Prophecy, Ritual, Wind, Tongue Horizon, Afterlistening

same dominant organ Chimera, Dream, Fire, Metamorphosis, Presence, Resonance, Ritual, Storm, Symbol, Self-Fulfilling Alarm, Shared Breath, Self-Ending Order, Witnessed Relief (Mycelia), Commemorative Revision, Fear's Breath, The Shaping Pause, Simultaneous Remembering, Poetry, Subtractive Phenomenology

Genome

• rhythm also in Breath, Fear's Breath, Poetry, Shared Breath, Syllable
• expectation also in Afterlistening, Knowing Trust, Placebo, The Shaping Pause, Witnessed Relief
• ratio
• entrainment also in Resonance (Automata), Shared Breath
• emotion

Echoes

• the music of the spheres
• a lullaby
• a drum circle
• a tune you cannot stop hearing