Attempt Quote by Woody Norris

“Linearity is a reductionist’s dream, and nonlinearity can sometimes be a reductionist’s nightmare. Understanding the distinction between linearity and nonlinearity is very important and…

— Melanie Mitchell

No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events…

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

I've always been interested in finding out more about the properties of acoustics.

— Z'EV

The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how it's…

— Tod Machover

For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning…

— Neil Gershenfeld

Working in the digital domain, you're using approximations of things; the actual sound wave never enters the equation. You deal with sections of it,…

— Sean Booth

Seeing sound, the high order stuff that's not audible still affects how everything else behaves. There might be a visual metaphor for that somewhere.

— Jerry Garcia

Modern science agrees that the universe consists of vibrations, but sound is more than vibration. Distinct from white noise, sound is vibrations in harmonic…

— Huston Smith

I think people are complacent about sound, because we're so limited by the textures and timbres we hear in music, but in our everyday…

— Herbert

It's not like I actually understand the properties of sound.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Sound is a subtle form of speech and then more subtle than sound is silence and that's like the realm of being.

— MC Yogi

Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a…

— Steve Albini