Image / Sound - Michael's tutorial

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"Color version Play, make sounds, etc........................................................................................... red; blue; white; green; yellow; black; silver; sharp, short sound; flat; silence; simpler relationships (1:2, 2:3, 3:4) mixed with less simple (5:6, 7:8); with breath or air; soft; long, thin, or flourished. Variable shades. Colors need not be symbols for sounds, nor sounds for colors. Consider making, sometimes, a fabric with some design in it, but not in two dimensions. Or, allow for the possibility of periodicities appearing, and disappearing (for instance, shortly on being identified, or immediately on being imitated, or within 3 to 7 seconds of a signal). At some point drop two of the colors and two of the descriptions listed above; and shortly before finishing introduce five new ones. Are musical sounds to other sounds as black and white is to color? Are the colors necessary? Lights, painting, confetti, the colors already there. What about texture? Smooth, lumpy, gritty; streaks, powdered, smeared, even, edged, trailing. Colors are not to objects one sees as a sound quality to sounds one hears. Or are they?"

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