Piano Etude No. 1: "Asimov vs. Huxley"
by Greg Anderson
“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.”
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
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
— Greg Anderson