The perspective of language being "crunched" into sets of numbers reminds me a bit of why serialist composers never really got widespread exposure or developed as a form as jazz has (or communicative, for that matter).

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I can study music with a number of theories and I'll get a number of different results. I can listen to music in a number of different settings and I'll hear a number of different sounds.

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When a theory creates *art, theoretically, you should get a very artful theory.