The Ancestor's Ta[le/il]

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Words by Daniel C. Dennett
Created in Pure Data

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"It is estimated that well over 99 percent of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without having had offspring. And yet here you are: of all your billions of ancestors over the years, from single cells to worms to fish to reptiles to mammals to primates, not a single one of them died childless. How lucky you are! Of course, every blade of grass has an equally long and proud heritage, and every mosquito, and every elephant and every daisy." (Dennett, 2013)

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from Noise &, released September 28, 2014
DENNETT, D. C. 2013. Intuition pumps and other tools for thinking. (Words)
Giles, V. 2014. Music and concept.

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Vincent Giles Melbourne, Australia

Vincent Giles is a composer; a tinkerer with acoustic and electronic sound in the context of concert music, electronic music, installation, and performance. His work is strongly influenced by the natural world, science, and mathematics, and his music is best characterised as experimental, being built on emergent properties. ... more

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