repetitive ripples

“If we could see the pressure ripples of these non-musical sounds, we would notice that they were very complicated. … The noise ripple shape [of, for example, a door closing] which eventually arrives at the eardrum is extremely complicated because it is made up of a chaotic group of individual ripples which have no relationship to each other. This is true of all noises which are not musical notes. The noise ripple shape which eventually arrives at the eardrum is extremely complicated because it is made up of a chaotic group of individual ripples which have no relationship to each other. This is true of all noises which are not musical notes.

“Musical notes are different from non-musical noises because every musical note is made up of a ripple pattern which repeats itself over and over again. … To be a musical note, it doesn’t really matter how complicated the individual ripples are, as long as the pattern repeats itself. Our eardrums flex in and out as the pressure ripples push against them. However, our eardrums can’t respond properly if the ripple pattern repeats itself too quickly or too slowly – we can only hear patterns which repeat themselves more often than twenty times a second but less often than 2o,ooo times a second.”   From How Music Works by John Powell

 so creating a pattern=making music?

it’s all educational

how promising you are as a student of the game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.  nets and fences can be mirrors.  and between the nets and fences, opponents are also mirrors.  this is why the whole thing is scary.  this is why all opponents are scary and weaker opponents are especially scary.

see yourself in your opponents.  they will bring you to understand the game.  to accept the fact that the game is about managed fear.  that its object is to send from yourself what you hope will not return.

 Infinite Jest p. 176