Eight is a Gate
Part I:
Part II:
This figure is related to
the mathematics of
reflection groups.
Part III:
“The capacity of music to operate simultaneously along horizontal and vertical axes, to proceed simultaneously in opposite directions (as in inverse canons), may well constitute the nearest that men and women can come to absolute freedom. Music does ‘keep time’ for itself and for us.”
— George Steiner in Grammars of Creation
Inverse Canon —
From Werner Icking Music Archive:
Bach, Fourteen Canons
on the First Eight Notes
of the Goldberg Ground,
No. 11 —
At a different site —
an mp3 of the 14 canons.
That Crown of Thorns,
by Timothy A. Smith
