God himself seems to spend water in order to actuate the water-driven organ. 2nd volume of Robert Fludd’s great history of the macro- and microcosm: Tractatus secundus. De naturae simia seu technica macrocosmi historia, (Oppenheim: Johann Theodore de Bry, 1618).
Bronze set-bells (biānzhōng 編鐘) of the 5th century, unearthed in 1978 from the tomb of Marquis Y乙 of the Zēng 曾 State located at the present SuiÅL 隨 County, HuÅLbi 湖北 Province. Courtesy Joseph Chen.
Ars brevis, 14th. Century (Biblioteca El Escorial f-IV-12, latin), fol. 4r. Ramon Llull, courtesy Amador Vega.
Variantology – Session 2
The second session on Friday is dedicated to Siegfried Zielinski’s Variantology research group. Variantology research seeks to move from reflections on the deep-time history of the arts and sciences to speculations that extend into the present. The work on deep time relations between arts, sciences, and technologies opens up a new perspective on both media and the arts via their interactions with scientific and technological processes.
After an introductory keynote by Siegfried Zielinski, Amador Vega (ES) and Joseph Chen (US/CN) will reflect about the topic.
Amador Vega:
Lecture on Ramon Lull
Joseph Chen
The Sound from Deep Time: Tuning Revealed by Unearthed Playable Ancient Musical Instruments
In recent decades a number of ancient musical instruments have been unearthed in China. These instruments can be used to produce sounds from deep time. Chen will elaborate on studies of ancient tuning based on the sound of deep time produced by these ancient musical instruments.