Episode 57

The tenth of eleven episodes in which Miriam returns to ramble with me on my mind map. The six topics we randomly generated this time were left- and right-handedness, "cultural self-harm", fractality in nature, MK Ultra, ley lines and Conlon Nancarrow.

We continue discussing the role of technological innovation in the evolution of musics, touching on Schoenberg's "twelve-tone technique", then shift briefly into fractals before starting on the highly controversial topic of the CIA's secret Project MKUltra.

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Some relevant links:

• Conlon Nancarrow
• playlist of Nancarrow player piano compositions
• Arnold Schoenberg
• 12-tone technique
• Arlet
• Music In The Woods (Arlet residency documentary)
• microtonal music
• fractals
• CIA
• OSS
• Project MKUltra
• thorny dragon (Moloch horridus)