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Sonic Pixels - An Essay on Music and Motion in Three Parts
Essay Part Three by Mark Webster Excellent Essay, also worth checking out are his two other essays Part 1 - Colour is the keyboard and Part 2 - Rhythm in Motion

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Wolfram Tones: An Experiment in a New Kind of Music
http://tones.wolfram.com/ "WolframTones works by taking simple programs from Wolfram's computational universe, and using music theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world, with its own special story--and WolframTones captures it as a musical composition. " This is really fun to play with....!!! Amazing composition controls in terms of a huge variety of musical scales

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BOOK- Cognition and theVisual Arts
BOOK- Cognition and the Visual Arts "In this first systematic study of the connection between the new cognitive psychology and its importance to art, Solso reflects on the long relationship between humankind and art, observing that "mind and art are one." A major theme of this book, in fact, is that the clearest view of the mind comes when we create or experience art, a reverse of the usual view of art and cognition." Source: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=6677

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