TY - BOOK AU - Holtzman, Steven R TI - Digital mantras : the languages of abstract and virtual worlds SN - 0262082284 U1 - 003.3 PY - 1994/// CY - Cambridge PB - MIT Press KW - N1 - CONTENTS Preface vii Prelude: Jispa 1 Structures 3 1 Panini 5 2 The Circle of Fifths 15 3 Nagarjuna 35 4 The Second Viennese School 53 5 Kandinsky 69 6 Postwar Serialism 85 7 Chomsky 97 8 Coda 113 Interlude: Pokara 117 II Structure Manipulators 121 9 Calculus Ratiocinator 123 10 "Natural Language" 141 11 Composing Machines 159 12 The Visual World 171 13 The Virtual World 193 14 Reflections 213 Interlude: A Gompa 223 III Vibration 225 15 CCDL 227 16 A Digital Aesthetic 235 17 Dissonance 253 18 Deep Structure 261 19 Vibration 279 Postlude: Bara Lacha La 295 Notes 299 Bibliography 311 Index 317 ER -