...when God began

Ellen Davis writes that good poetry contains the structures of creation. The rhythms, patterns, ratios, and proportions of nature can be found in the structures of good poetry. The same goes for music as well. One of the fairly recent observations of the structures of creation is Fractal Geometry. Fractals are shapes that contain self-similarity, that is on the large scale and the small scale they very similar if not approaching the exact same.

Fractals often appear in nature:

Fractal patterns exist in the music of J.S. Bach, the Blues, and Afro-Cuban Rhythms.

…when God began

For this piece I applied the notion of self-similarity using the biblical numbers of 7, 5, and 3. The piece is 7’07” long. I layer a seven note, a five note, and a three note pattern on two scales. On the macro level each note is stretched into a drone dividing the time of the entire piece into 7, 5, and 3 parts respectively (also in the video events occur in the same distribution).

The macro pattern could be repeated, ‘scaling up’ the piece, ad nauseam.

On the micro level each minute is divided into 7, 5, and 3 parts as well. Presumedly this pattern could occur on an even smaller scale, but it would soon be inaudible.