Against a Theory of Musical (New) Complexity
Richard Toop · 2016
This chapter argues based on two precedents to be found in the work of David Hilbert and Andrè Souris. A hundred years later, at least two-thirds of those problems have been resolved, and each one has shown the validity of this diagnosis of the state of mathematics. Hilbert&s;s programme thus constitutes a remarkable example of hope validated by posterity. Nearly 50 years later, in 1945, Andrè souris in Brussels set out what he understood by the &s;conditions of music&s;. The content of his answers alone allows us to throw some light on what precisely he understood by the &s;conditions of music&s;. Writing, dialectics and strategy thus constitute the three orders with regard to which, it seems to me, there is room to hope for something from a musical logic.