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Noise = Meaning : Data<span></span></span></p>

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Friends,<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">if one likes contemporary music, one is being well cared for

in Vienna, specifically during the November festival “wien modern”. The concert

cycle “klangforum wien” also introduces creative approaches to what is the

state of the art in creating acoustic data, which some will experience as

music, while for some the performance is partly outside of the boundary of what

is music. This year’s motto “grenzwert” (“limits”) is, once more, a head-on

confrontation with rules, traditions and conventions regarding the highly

subjective delineation between writing music and finding music generated by the

interplay among physics and neurology. <span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">There is a science in religion, like there is music in some

contemporary concertos. It may not be easy to find, and for some orthodox

critics, science is something different to the transcendent aspects that have

been raised in FIS these last few weeks; just like many orthodox critics would

deny the inclusibility of some compositions under the term “music”, while for

people familiar with the style, the goal of the composer is evident: work on

the boundaries separating unrelated instances of noise from a coherent musical

phrase. Style of Cherubini they write not, the closure of the phrase is not an

over-determined, long foretold, affaire; yet – as they have repeatedly

demonstrated – there is a difference between a composition and a sequence of

random noises.<span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Similarly, in our discussions here, about what is

information, we can come up with ever newer delineations between

incomprehensible and predictable. We can point out Väinämöinen, who can sing

into existence a copper boat, touching on the principle of standing waves, or

the Monkey King: Sun Wukong, who creates clones of himself by blowing on hair

from his fur, being an ancestor to Sheep Dolly. <span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">A more conservative approach would be to restrict ourselves

to that, to which all can agree being mainstream science of information. We do

not need yet to explore the limits of what is (or: what can be understood/experienced

as) information. There is enough to learn within the confines of classical

reasoning. We are not done yet with the Harmonielehre of how data contain

information. Why don’t we pick up Joseph’s low-key observation: (colour emphasis

added)<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span>“ … <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The problem of the entire concept of

"data-driven" research can be illustrated by referring to almost any

recent copy of SCIENCE, which I am sure you all do from time to time.

There are articles in my original field, chemistry, which describe incredibly

complex multiply-sequenced reactions which were unimaginable when I was in

university. They cannot be followed or their products exploited without the

latest concepts in data handling. But there is a usually a little phrase

"in fine print" to the effect that the system works "provided

the reactions <span style="color:red">lend themselves to sequencing".

As long as there is possibility of studying the chemistry of some molecular

systems, literally, as individuals, it will be hypotheses about their reality

that drive the research, not the data. … “<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>To me, it does not appear necessary to

make a distinction between “reality” and “data”; just like there is no

necessity for musicians to distinguish between the note printed on the partiture,

and the acoustic sound, or for Chess champions to distinguish between the

description of the position in the protocol of the game and the actual pieces

one can hold in his hands. <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>To summarise:<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>If we understand science to be

something that All can talk about, then we better keep referring to such facts,

the existence of which is a common knowledge: these facts are usually called “data”;<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>One can and will learn a lot from

investigating relations among data. As facts have educated us to the fact, that

information transmission in the course of genetics happens by the property of

data <i>to be sequenced</i>, we should

better look into <i>variants of being

sequenced</i>;<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>There is sufficient music and noise

emanating from differing <i>sequences</i>

one and the same collection can have, so presently there appears to be no need

to involve such concepts that may or may not constitute information. Let us stick

to such arrangements of data that do contain information, like the DNA. No need

yet to ask Supranatural Beings for their help with figuring out, how to transform

the collection of pupils from being lined up on their first name into being

lined up on their last name. We can solve this problem, taking into account the

impressive academic achievements we cumulatively possess.<span></span></span></p>

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