Digital Mantras

The languages of abstract and virtual worlds

I

 Structures

P.3

1

 Panini

P.5

2

 The Circle of Fifths

P.15

3

 Nagarjuna

P.35

4

 The Second Viennese School

P.35

5

 Kandinsky

P.69

6

 Postwar Serialism

P.85

7

 Chomsky

P.97

8

 Coda

P.113

Interlude: Pokara

P.117

II

 Structure Manipulators

P.121

9

 Calculus Ratiocinator

P.123

10

 "Natural Language"

P.141

11

 Composing Machines

P.159

12

 The Visual World

P.171

13

 The Virtual World

P.193

14

 Reflections

P.123

Interlude: A Gompa

P.223

III

 Vibration

P.225

15

 GGDL

P.227

16

 A Digital Aesthetic

P.235

17

 Dissonance

P.253

18

 Deep Structure

P.261

19

 Vibration

P.279

Postlude: Bara Lacha La

P.295

Notes

P.299

Bibliography

P.311

Index

P.317