Dialectical Sequencing - Talk at Gray Area, 18 June 2025

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"Thanks to Ryan at the Creative Resource Library at Gray Area for inviting me! They have events like this every month, and lend instruments, too:

https://grayarea.org/create/creative-...

Discrete map is a Eurorack module for dialectical sequencing and other quantizing functions:

https://nsinstruments.com/modules/dma...

00:00 Ryan's Introduction
00:56 0. Introduction
2:15 0.1 The hierarchical model
4:33 0.2 The dialectical model
6:04 0.3 Art and philosophy
9:31 1. Dialectical sequencing
9:37 1.1 GWF Hegel
11:00 1.2 Quantity and quality
12:34 1.3 Quantity becomes quality
18:59 1.4 Dialectical sequencing 1
20:26 1.5 Dialectical sequencing 2
21:29 2. History and hardware
21:48 2.1. Cybernetics
26:15 2.2. Louis and Bebe Barron
28:20 2.3. Source of uncertainty
30:04 2.4. Todd Barton "Krell Muzak"
32:18 2.5. Discrete Map
33:20 3. Patches
33:31 3.1. Basic patch
35:34 3.2. "Natural" quantization
36:46 3.3. Beat frequencies
39:16 The end
39:59 Questions"