lauraboyd asked: I have lately been obsessed with binary - zeros and ones. I think about "one" containing all of existence, etc. I was just reading, (or trying to read) a paper titled "On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton." One diagram is a particle approaching a holographic screen, the diagram has binary on it. My mind is thinking about information being stored on the horizon of a black hole as binary. (I think about myself passing through a black hole, how would my information be translated?) My question is, what does "eventually, all of this must become zeros and ones. Everything, everywhere, everyone, zeros and ones..." mean? Is it even explainable? Am I crazy to compare us to black holes and binary and mathematical equations when I hear this song?
your question is much better than my answer. i was thinking both about modern recorded music and the awkward marriage of art and commerce.
when you’re recording music with modern tools you have to eventually convert the analog signal to digital signal, turning it into zeros and ones. and as an artist you are constantly doing battle, both internally and externally, to convert every idea into something measurable, quantifiable, sellable. eventually all of those things have measure put on them to determine their value, as thought their value is not intrinsic. as someone who might be better suited to be an artist manager than an artist (because of my overwhelming and sometimes paralyzing attention to detail in both creativity and processing) i have to be careful not to immediately kill organic creative moments by too quickly re-framing them as opportunities for commerce.
so ‘zeros & ones’ was probably a bit of lamentation about the reality that i find myself constantly up against.
