T R A N S C R I P T

THE SOUNDTRACK OF NOW: A SOJOURN IN SOUND™ WITH CHRISTINE BUSH
CHAPTER FOUR: A PAIR OF DICE, LOST.
WRITTEN, PRODUCED, AND HOSTED BY CHRISTINE BUSH.
PATREON RELEASE DATE: JUNE 5, 2020
PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: JUNE 8, 2020
CC-BY-SA 4.0

WAVES REVEAL UPON THE SHORE
(ENGLISH LANGUAGE HAIKU BY JONATHA CHANCE) 
I FIND BY CHANCE THAT
WAVES REVEAL UPON THE SHORE
A PAIR OF DICE, LOST.

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A1.    GREETINGS. THIS IS CHAPTER FOUR OF THE SOUNDTRACK OF NOW: A SOJOURN IN SOUND (TM). I'M CHRISTINE BUSH. IN THIS CHAPTER OF THE SOUNDTRACK OF NOW: A SOJOURN IN SOUND, I WILL BE SHARING THE NEXT MOVEMENT FOR A NEW WORK ENTITLED THE DISQUIETING, A SERIES OF MEDITATIONS ON ASPECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 
A2.    TO CONTEXTUALIZE THIS LISTENING EXPERIENCE, I RETURN TO THE IDEA OF PATTERN MAKING AND PATTERN SEEKING AS CORE HUMAN BEHAVIORS. SPECIFICALLY, I WANT TO EXPLORE THE INTERSECTION OF "QUANTUM SOCIAL THEORY" WITH ALEATORIC MUSIC MAKING, BOTH OF WHICH EXPAND OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF PATTERNS THEMSELVES.
A3.     IN A CONVERSATION AT THE WORLD SCIENCE FESTIVAL ABOUT ALBERT EINSTEIN, PHYSICIST BRIAN GREENE TOLD HOST ALAN ALDA: "THE GOAL OF SCIENCE IS TO FIND THE DEEP PATTERNS IN NATURE." FOR PHYSICISTS, THE ELUSIVE GOAL HAS BEEN A UNIFIED FIELD THEORY THAT CAN BE APPLIED TO ALL SCALES OF INQUIRY.
A4.    QUANTUM MECHANICS PROVIDES A FRAMEWORK OF MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS TO EXPLAIN EVENTS AT THE MOLECULAR, ATOMIC, AND SUBATOMIC SCALES. SOME OF ITS CORE PRINCIPLES INCLUDE: THE HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE, WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY, AND QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT.
A5.    QUANTUM SOCIAL THEORY IS AN EMERGENT PERSPECTIVE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES THAT SEEKS TO APPLY CONCEPTS FROM QUANTUM CONCEPTS AT A MUCH LARGER --- SOCIETAL --- SCALE IN AN EFFORT TO ADDRESS PERCEIVED DEFICIENCIES IN ASSUMPTIONS MADE ABOUT THE POWER OF INDIVIDUALS TO AFFECT COLLECTIVE CHANGE.
I WILL OFFER ONE CAVEAT: SOME SCIENTISTS ARE UNDERSTANDABLY SKEPTICAL, DISMISSIVE, OR ITCHY ABOUT THE TRANSLATION OF CONCEPTS FROM A MATHEMATICAL PARADIGM INTO A DIFFERENT ONE. 
ALAS, NO SINGLE DISCIPLINE HAS A MONOPOLY ON IMAGINATION. QUANTUM SOCIAL THEORY IS PROVOCATIVE, BUT IT ALSO DOVETAILS BEAUTIFULLY WITH A PREMISE OF THIS PROGRAM, GIVEN VOICE BY EINSTEIN IN 1929:

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“IMAGINATION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN KNOWLEDGE. KNOWLEDGE IS LIMITED. IMAGINATION ENCIRCLES THE WORLD.”

A6.    INDEED, ALBERT EINSTEIN WAS THE MASTER OF THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS. A PAPER EINSTEIN WROTE EARLY IN HIS CAREER LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR QUANTUM MECHANICS AND IT HAD UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES THAT HAUNTED HIM. PERHAPS HIS MOST FAMOUS APHORISM, THAT "GOD DOES NOT PLAY DICE" EXPRESSES HIS DISMAY AT WHAT HAS SINCE BEEN SHOWN TO BE THE FACT OF QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT.
A7.    THERE IS A WORD FOR THE CREATIVE APPLICATION OF CHANCE OPERATIONS: ALEATORIC, FROM THE LATIN FOR DICE. IN THIS CHAPTER, I WILL ALSO OFFER SOME INITIAL THOUGHTS ABOUT JOHN CAGE, THE ARTIST AND PHILOSOPHER WHO DEVELOPED A MODERN FORMULATION OF ALEATORIC METHODS.
A8.    SO WHY ARE SOCIAL SCIENTISTS TURNING TO QUANTUM THEORY IN THEIR RESEARCH ON CLIMATE CHANGE? AND HOW IS THAT RELATED TO COMPOSITIONS OF MUSIC AND SOUND ORGANIZED USING CHANCE OPERATIONS?
A9.    THE SOUNDTRACK OF CONTINUES...

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B1.    MY NEW WORK IN PROGRESS, THE DISQUIETING, IS A CYCLE OF PIECES ON THE THEME OF CLIMATE CHANGE. I'M PRODUCING THEM AS A NON-VERBAL COUNTERPOINT TO THE ESSAYS I'M WRITING FOR THIS PROGRAM. IT IS A WAY TO PRACTICE THINKING THROUGH SOUND. I HAVE DECIDED TO SUBTITLE THE NEXT MOVEMENT "A PAIR OF DICE LOST." THIS PHRASE IS BOTH A NOD TO MILTON'S 17th CENTURY EPIC BLANK VERSE POEM PARADISE LOST AND TO EINSTEIN'S ANGST REGARDING THE POSSIBILITY THE UNIVERSE IS A NON-DETERMINISTIC REVELATION.
B2.    IN MILTON WE FIND THE ANCIENT STORY OF ORIGINAL SIN RESULTING IN THE EXPULSION FROM PARADISE (THE GARDEN OF EDEN). SINCE THE GENESIS OF OUR MYTHIC ORIGINS IN THE TORAH AND CHRISTIAN BIBLE, WE HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING TO UNDERSTAND OUR ENVIRONMENT AND REAPING THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR SUCCESSES AND FAILURES TO LIVE HARMONIOUSLY WITH IT. AT THE CENTER OF IT ALL STANDS THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, A CONSTANT SOURCE OF INSPIRATION, DEBATE, AND CONTROVERSY. IT'S FRUIT EMPOWERS CURIOSITY AND INQUIRY TO THIS DAY. 
B3.    TO BRIEFLY REVIEW: QUANTUM MECHANICS REVEALS THAT WHEN OBSERVING EVENTS AT "QUANTUM" SCALES, THAT THINGS BEHAVE DIFFERENTLY. SOMETIMES A MOLECULE OR ATOMIC OBJECT BEHAVES LIKE A WAVE, SOMETIMES LIKE A PARTICLE, AND SOMETIMES EXHIBIT PROPERTIES OF BOTH A WAVE AND A PARTICLE. WE CANNOT KNOW --- IN REAL TIME --- WHEN AND WHERE ONE OF THESE OBJECTS IS.ALL WE CAN DO, BASED ON AGGREGATE ANALYSIS, IS DEVELOP A WAVE FUNCTION, OR AS I PREFER TO CALL IT, A MATRIX OF PROBABILITIES. THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO APPRECIATE IS THAT THE BEHAVIOR IS DISCRETE.EVEN MORE INTERESTINGLY, PARTICLES CAN BECOME ENTANGLED, WHICH MEANS THAT CHANGES TO ONE AFFECT THE OTHER SIMULTANEOUSLY AND WITHOUT CAUSATION, EVEN OVER HUGE DISTANCES.
B4.    IN OTHER WORDS, THE NATURE OF REALITY REMAINS AS ELUSIVE TO OUR HUMAN ASSUMPTIONS AND EXPERIENCE ABOUT HOW THINGS WORK AS EVER. NEWTON'S APOCRYPHAL APPLE TURNS TO DUST AS SOON AS WE LOOK MORE CLOSELY UPON IT THROUGH A QUANTUM LENS. AND THEN THAT DUST TURNS INTO AN EVEN FINER DUST AND AS THE APOCRYPHAL STORY GOES, IT'S TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN. BUT EVENTUALLY THOSE TURTLES TURN INTO THINGS LIKE MOLECULES AND SUBATOMIC PARTICLES AND THOSE MAY TURN INTO EVEN SMALLER CONSTITUENTS OF VIBRATING COSMIC STRINGS.
B5.    THE LATEST RESEARCH EFFORTS ARE INVESTIGATING WHERE THE TURTLES STOP AND THE QUANTA BEGIN. IT IS AN INTERESTING QUESTION WITH POTENTIALLY PROFOUND RAMIFICATIONS.B6.    SOPHIA CHEN REPORTED FOR WIRED MAGAZINE IN SEPTEMBER 2019 THAT NEW RESEARCH INDICATES BEHAVIOR HERETOFORE ASCRIBED ONLY TO THE "QUANTUM" LEVEL OF ANALYSIS CAN, UNDER CAREFULLY CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS, BE DEMONSTRATED AT LARGER SCALES. CHEN REPORTS:
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"ONE POSSIBILITY PHYSICISTS ARE EXPLORING IS THAT QUANTUM MECHANICS MIGHT IN FACT APPLY AT ALL SCALES . . .  BY LOOKING FOR WAVELIKE BEHAVIOR IN PROGRESSIVELY LARGER OBJECTS, [MARKUS] ARNDT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA IN AUSTRIA WANTS TO UNDERSTAND HOW QUANTUM MECHANICS TRANSITIONS INTO THE WORLD WE NORMALLY PERCEIVE. TO THAT END, SOME PHYSICISTS PROPOSE THEORIES SUCH AS THE CONTINUOUS SPONTANEOUS LOCALIZATION MODEL, WHICH MODIFIES THE MATH OF STANDARD QUANTUM MECHANICS TO SUGGEST THAT LARGER OBJECTS STAY IN A WAVELIKE STATE FOR SHORTER TIMES."

B7.    IN SEPTEMBER 2016, KAREN L. O'BRIEN CONTRIBUTED AN ARTICLE ENTITLED "CLIMATE CHANGE AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS: IS IT TIME FOR A QUANTUM LEAP?" TO THE JOURNAL WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEW: CLIMATE CHANGE. SHE BEGINS BY INVOKING A POEM BY LEMN SISSAY'S ENTITLED "WHAT IF?" IN THIS COUNTER-NARRATIVE RHETORICAL RIFF, SISSAY PONDERS IF OUR ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE NATURE OF "PROGRESS"...WERE WRONG. 
B8.    IN MY READING, SISSAY'S POEM IS MORE APPROPOS TO A DISCUSSION OF CHAOS THEORY, WHICH IS ABOUT THE LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES OF SMALL CHANGES TO THE STATE OF A SYSTEM, THAN IT IS ABOUT QUANTUM MECHANICS. THIS CONFLATION COULD BE PROBLEMATIC, BUT IS IT? LET'S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK.
B9.    SYSTEMS CONTAINING DISCRETE ELEMENTS, WHETHER THEY ARE SUB-ATOMIC PARTICLES OR HUMAN POPULATIONS, EXHIBIT ANALYTICAL COMPLEXITY THAT TENDS TO CONFOUND DETERMINISTIC EXPECTATIONS. IN HER ARTICLE, O'BRIEN WRITES:

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"INTERPRETED THROUGH A SOCIAL LENS, QUANTUM CONCEPTS SUCH AS ENTANGLEMENT, COMPLEMENTARITY, UNCERTAINTY, AND SUPERPOSITION PROVIDE A STRONG BASIS FOR RECOGNIZING AND PROMOTING PEOPLE AS THE SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE."

B10.    ONE WAY SOCIAL SCIENTISTS ARE WORKING TO ADDRESS THE CLIMATE CRISIS USING "QUANTUM CONCEPTS" IS WITH THE APPLICATION OF STATISTICAL MODELS BASED ON THOSE IN QUANTUM THEORY, WHICH ARE EFFECTIVE IN ANALYZING INCOMPLETE INFORMATION.
ANOTHER STRATEGY IS A CONCEPT CALLED "AGENTIAL REALISM," WHICH VIEWS HUMANITY AS "ENTANGLED" WITH THE PHYSICAL WORLD IN A WAY THAT TRANSCENDS FIXED MATERIAL AND CULTURAL BOUNDARIES AND, THEREFORE, CHANGES THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH CLIMATE CHANGE OCCURS.
A THIRD APPROACH DIRECTLY CONSIDERS PEOPLE AS "WALKING WAVE FUNCTIONS" WHOSE COLLECTIVE INTRA-ACTIONS COLLAPSE INTO POLICIES AND PRACTICES THAT ARE SUPER-POSITIONED, SIMULTANEOUSLY INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE.
B11.     AFTER THINKING DEEPLY ABOUT THIS, I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT O'BRIEN'S INITIAL INVOCATION OF SISSAY'S POEM IS AN IMPORTANT CLUE ABOUT THE ROLE OF QUANTUM SOCIAL THEORY. IN ADDITION TO CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACADEMIC DISCOURSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, QUANTUM SOCIAL THEORY GOES FURTHER. IT ALSO DE-CENTERS CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH BY QUESTIONING THE SYSTEM OF KNOWLEDGE AT PLAY IN IT. 
THAT SYSTEM HAS RELIED PRIMARILY ON DETERMINISTIC ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, GOVERNMENT REGULATION, AND ECONOMIC INCENTIVES TO AFFECT CHANGES IN DISCRETE ASPECTS OF A PLANETARY SYSTEM: GREEN HOUSE GASES, OCEAN CHEMISTRY, FOSSIL FUEL EXTRACTION, POPULATION GROWTH, FOOD PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION, POLLUTION. MANAGING THESE ISSUES ARE UNDENIABLY PART OF THE SOLUTION, BUT THEY HAVE PROVEN INSUFFICIENT.
B12.    WE DO NOT COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND HOW CHANGES IN ONE MITIGATION EFFORT AFFECT THE OTHERS. POLICY, REGULATION, AND INCENTIVES ARE POWERFUL TOOLS, BUT THEY ARE NOT AGILE. AS WE LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SCOPE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, OUR EXISTING GOALS BECOME OBSOLETE AND MIRED IN POLITICS.QUANTUM SOCIAL THEORY PROVIDES A PARADIGM FOR PEOPLE TO BE BOTH RATIONAL AND IRRATIONAL, LOGICAL AND ILLOGICAL, SELF-INTERESTED AND SOCIAL. WE TELL STORIES AND WE FORGET. WE ARE IGNORANT AND CONSCIOUS. WE ARE, IN THE WORDS OF MICHAEL SHAARA, "KILLER ANGELS." EVEN AS ANGELS, WE CANNOT KNOW ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS WE DO NOT ASK. 
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B13.    THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE IS BOUNTIFUL. WE JUST HAVE TO PICK A BRANCH AND GIVE IT A SHAKE! SOMETIMES WE YOU FIND A BEGUILING SERPENT. SOMETIMES AN INSPIRING APPLE FALLS UPON YOUR HEAD. SOMETIMES YOU GET A LEMON. YOU NEVER KNOW: BUT YOU ALWAYS LEARN SOMETHING.
B14.    SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE SHAKE THE BRANCH ON THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE WE CALL MUSIC? THIS HAPPENS ABOUT ONCE A GENERATION AND IT IS USUALLY EXCITING. ONE OF THE BIGGEST SHAKE DOWNS HAPPENED IN THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY WHEN JOHN CAGE BEGAN INTRODUCING CHANCE OPERATIONS, ALSO CALLED ALEATORIC METHODS, INTO HIS COMPOSITION PROCESS.
B15.    JOHN CAGE DIDN'T JUST DECIDE TO BE A MUSICAL MAVERICK. CAGE HAD HELP. HE BEGAN AS A STUDENT OF ARNOLD SCHOENBERG, THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY AVANT GARDE COMPOSER WHO INTRODUCED TWELVE-TONE SERIALISM (AND ITS CONSEQUENT DISSONANCES) INTO CONCERT MUSIC.
CAGE HAD HELP --- FROM THE NEW YORK COMPOSER MORTON FELDMAN WHO SHARED A SCORE USING GRAPHIC NOTATION. THIS MOMENT WAS IN A WAY A QUANTUM LEAP FOR MODERN MUSIC WHEN THE PARADIGM OF NOTES ON A SYSTEM OF STAVES WAS RE-CONSIDERED AS A QUOTE UNQUOTE "MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE", HOWEVER TRANSCENDENT OR SUBLIME IT MAY BE.
IN RE-IMAGINING THE WRITTEN LANGUAGE OF MUSIC, THE COMPOSER BECOMES A COLLABORATIVE, NON-EXCLUSIVE AUTHOR OF THE LISTENING EXPERIENCE. PERFORMANCE OF SUCH WORKS REVEALS THE SUPERPOSITIONING OF COMPOSER AND PERFORMER. MUSICIANS BRING THEIR OWN IMAGINATIVE AGENCY NOT ONLY TO THE INTERPRETATION OF A WORK BUT ALSO TO ITS CONTENT.
B16.    CAGE HAD HELP --- FROM THE PAINTER ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG. ACCORDING TO ALEX ROSS, THE MUSIC CRITIC FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES, IT WAS A VIEWING OF RAUSCHENBERG’S WHITE CANVASES THAT JOHN CAGE SAYS MADE HIM REALIZE THAT "MUSIC IS LAGGING." IN RESPONSE, CAGE CONCEIVED HIS FAMOUS CONCEPT PIECE 4'33": THREE MOVEMENTS OF TIMED, NON-PERFORMANCE ALLOWING THE AMBIENT SOUND OF THE PERFORMANCE SPACE TO EMERGE, A REVELATION IN LISTENING. SOME OF THOSE WHO LISTENED IN THIS WAY FOR THE FIRST TIME WERE PROFOUNDLY THREATENED. THEY SUGGESTED THE COMPOSER SHOULD BE RUN OUT OF TOWN. ROSS WRITES IN HIS BOOK, THE REST IS NOISE: LISTENING TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY:

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"IT WAS AT ONCE A HEAD-SPINNING PHILOSOPHICAL STATEMENT AND A ZEN-LIKE RITUAL OF CONTEMPLATION. IT WAS A PIECE THAT ANYONE COULD HAVE WRITTEN...BUT, AS CAGE SELDOM FAILED TO RESPOND, NO ONE ELSE DID."


B17.    JOHN CAGE SHOOK THE BRANCH ON THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE CALLED MUSIC, AND RATHER THAN LOOKING EXPECTANTLY TO THE GROUND TO SEE WHAT FELL, HE JUST SMILED AND REALIZED THAT THE SOUND OF ITS LEAVES, QUIVERING IN THE BREEZE ... WAS BEAUTIFUL.B18.    IN HIS CELEBRATED COLLECTION OF LECTURES AND WRITINGS ENTITLED SILENCE, JOHN CAGE EXPLAINED:

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"ONE NEED NOT FEAR ABOUT THE FUTURE OF MUSIC. BUT THIS FEARLESSNESS FOLLOWS, ONLY IF, AT THE PARTING OF THE WAYS, WHERE IT IS REALIZED THAT SOUNDS OCCUR WHETHER INTENDED OR NOT, ONE TURNS IN THE DIRECTION OF THOSE [ONE] DOES NOT INTEND. THIS TURNING IS PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SEEMS AT FIRST TO BE A GIVING UP OF EVERYTHING… IN FACT, EVERYTHING IS GAINED."

B19.    RATHER THAN USING DICE, CAGE APPLIED THE ANCIENT ORACLE OF THE I CHING TO HIS WORK IN VISUAL ART, WRITING, AND MUSIC. HE WAS A VISIONARY WHO WAS ABLE TO EXTRAPOLATE FROM EARLY EXPERIMENTS USING THE THEN NEWFANGLED MAGNETIC TAPE TO THE PARADIGM OF SOUND AND MUSIC PRODUCTION THAT WE USE TODAY.  ANY SOUND CAN BE COMBINED WITH ANY OTHER IN INFINITE COMBINATION WITH ANY NUMBER OF EFFECTS. THIS IS POSSIBLE THANKS TO DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, IN WHICH ANYTHING, INCLUDING THE SOUND OF MY VOICE RIGHT NOW, CAN BE MANIPULATED USING ONES AND ZEROES. THE SOUNDTRACK OF NOW, WHETHER NEUROLOGICAL OR TECHNOLOGICAL, EMERGES FROM THE ORGANIZATION OF DISCRETE ELEMENTS.
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B20.    MUSIC AND SOUND, ESPECIALLY WHEN ENTANGLED WITH UNCERTAINTY THROUGH CHANCE OPERATIONS, ARE PERHAPS THE PUREST ANALOG TO THE FUNDAMENTAL NATURE OF MATERIAL REALITY AS DESCRIBED IN QUANTUM THEORY. SOUND IS NOT JUST DESCRIBED AS BEHAVING LIKE A WAVE. SOUND AND MUSIC ARE WAVES. SO, WHENEVER WE DESCRIBE SOMETHING IN TERMS OF HAVING WAVE-LIKE BEHAVIORS OR PATTERNS, WE ALSO HAPPEN TO BE DESCRIBING SOMETHING MUSICALLY.
THE NEXT SECTION OF MY CLIMATE CHANGE INSPIRED MUSICAL PROJECT, THE DISQUIETING, IS CALLED "A PAIR OF DICE LOST," INSPIRED BY CAGE'S METHODOLOGY, BY EINSTEIN'S METAPHOR, AND BY MILTON'S POEM ABOUT A MYSTICAL TREE IN A GARDEN WE DID NOT PLANT WHERE A SNAKE CAN SPEAK...

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C1.    YOU'RE LISTENING TO THE SOUNDTRACK OF NOW: A SOJOURN IN SOUND. THIS IS MOVEMENT TWO, "A PAIR OF DICE LOST," FROM THE DISQUIETING BY JONATHA CHANCE, PERFORMED BY CHANCE ENCOUNTERS ENSEMBLE.

MUSIC: The Disquieting: II. A Pair Of Dice, Lost. Jonatha Chance/Chance Encounters Ensemble

C2.    "A PAIR OF DICE LOST" FROM THE DISQUIETING BY JONATHA CHANCE CAN ALSO BE FOUND ONLINE AT THIS PROGRAM'S WEBSITE AT: NOW DOT PERCHANCEMUSIC DOT COM.

SHOW NOTES AND CREDITS
EC1.    IN HIS BOOK KANT AND THE PLATYPUS: ESSAYS ON LANGUAGE AND COGNITION, UMBERTO ECO WROTE: "IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE THAT THERE ARE REGIONS OF BEING ABOUT WHICH WE ARE UNABLE TO TALK. IT SEEMS ODD, SEEING THAT BEING ALWAYS MANIFESTS ITSELF IN LANGUAGE ONLY, BUT LET US GRANT THIS --- SINCE THERE IS NO REASON WHY ONE DAY HUMANITY MIGHT NOT INVENT LANGUAGES DIFFERENT FROM THE KNOWN ONES."
EC2.   JOIN ME NEXT TIME ON THE SOUNDTRACK OF NOW FOR CHAPTER FIVE, MY NEXT SOJOURN IN SOUND WHEN I WILL CONSIDER SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT NOISE.
EC3.   I WANT TO THANK THE SUPPORTERS WHO HAVE JOINED THE SOUNDTRACK OF NOW PATREON COMMUNITY DURING THESE CHALLENGING TIMES. I AM HUMBLED AND SO GRATEFUL FOR YOUR GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARDS MY WORK. IN FACT, I HAVE CREATED A NEW RECOGNITION TIER ON THE WEB SITE FOR THE FIRST TEN FOUNDING PATREON CONTRIBUTORS DURING THIS YEAR, SO IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE LIMITED OPPORTUNITY TO BE A MEMBER OF THE BIG BANG FOR THE SOUNDTRACK OF NOW YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED.
I ALSO EXTEND MY PROFOUND APPRECIATION TO EVERYONE WHO IS GENERATING HUNDREDS OF PLAYS FOR EACH CHAPTER. I HOPE IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO THAT YOU WILL EXPLORE THE SHOW NOTES FOR EACH CHAPTER AND GIVE THE COMPANION PLAYLISTS A FOLLOW ON SPOTIFY WHERE THE PROGRAM MOST BENEFITS WHEN YOU FOLLOW IT ON SPOTIFY AS WELL. REGARDLESS: HOWE EVER AND WHENEVER YOU LISTEN, YOUR REVIEWS AND RATINGS ARE VALUED, HELPFUL AND APPRECIATED!
EC4.    THIS CHAPTER OF THE SOUNDTRACK OF NOW: A SOJOURN IN SOUND (TM) FEATURES WORK SHARED THROUGH THE CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSING FRAMEWORK. MATERIAL HEARD IN THIS CHAPTER WAS SOURCED FROM: FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE AND SOUNDCLOUD.
MY SINCERE THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING MUSICIANS AND SOUND ARTISTS FOR SHARING THEIR INSPIRING AND DIVERSE TALENTS: KIMIKO ISHIZAKA, LG17, GANGI, AND NCTRNM.FIND LINKS TO ALL MUSICAL SOURCES ON THE SHOW NOTES PAGE AT PATREON.COM/PERCHANCE.
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ALL QUOTED MATERIAL IS INCLUDED UNDER FAIR USE GUIDELINES FOR COMMENTARY AND CRITICISM. 
ADDITIONAL SOUND ELEMENTS ARE LICENSED FOR USE COURTESY OF: POND 5, PRESONUS, NATIVE ELEMENTS, RUMBLEFISH, AND PERCHANCE MUSIC & DIGITAL MEDIA. SYNTHETIC VOICES RENDERED BY POLLY, FROM: AMAZON WEB SERVICES.
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EC5.    I HOPE YOU’VE ENJOYED CHAPTER THREE WHICH WAS WRITTEN, PRODUCED AND HOSTED BY YOURS TRULY. ANY MISTAKES, INACCURACIES, OR EDITORIAL FAILURES --- IN CONTENT OR PRODUCTION --- ARE UNINTENDED AND ARE ENTIRELY MINE.    I’M CHRISTINE BUSH. THE SOUNDTRACK OF NOW CONTINUES. KEEP LISTENING.