A Science Superior to Music

by Adam Fix

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1.	Song of Healing 03:02	info
2.	Valley Of Lingering Regret 03:35	info	buy track
3.	Sanctuary 04:39	info	buy track
4.	Flashpoint 07:09	info	buy track
5.	Quintessentially 04:47	info	buy track
6.	Cosmotheoros 04:23	info	buy track
7.	God Plays Dice 03:21	info	buy track
8.	Phrygian Wind 04:45	info	buy track
9.	Green Grass Blue Sky (Little Boxes On The Hill Side) 03:49	info	buy track

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If Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle is to be believed, the French mathematician and engineer Joseph Sauveur (1653–1716) “had neither voice nor ear, but thought only of music.” Fontenelle’s reminiscences later inspired musicologist Hermann Scherchen to propagate a (false, but admittedly enthralling) myth depicting Sauveur as the mute and deaf father of acoustics—a veritable Beethoven of science. In fact, while lacking practical musical training, Sauveur heard perfectly well and was educated in the mathematics of harmonics, instrument construction, and physical theories of sound and hearing. Completing his musical treatises in the final moments of the seventeenth century, Sauveur recognized that a revolution in science had recently occurred and that a new science of sound was necessary. Although pioneering the theory of overtones and the harmonic series, his chief role was as synthesizer rather than innovator: he found a scrap heap of miscellaneous and disorganized theories and experiments and assembled it into a coherent science of sound. This new science—which he himself christened "l’acoustique", i.e. “that which can be heard”—became something quite different from traditional speculative music.

Seeking principles connecting music to the new physico-mathematics and holding true regardless of ever-fluctuating musical tastes, Sauveur deemed acoustics “a science superior to music…that has for its object sound in general, whereas music has for its object sound insofar as it is agreeable to the ear.” Its goal was “to explain the nature of sound, the organ of the ear, and in detail all properties of sound, in order to determine the causes of the agreement and disagreement of sounds which serve as the object of music and harmony."

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released November 20, 2016

All songs written by Adam Fix. All instruments (except drum machine and computer generated parts) played by Adam Fix. Oh, except for part of the lyrics in the last song.

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