[Fis] music and genetic code

To the session on music:

Dear FIS colleagues,
     Concerning to interesting theme on music, I would like to pay attention
on physiological aspects of music and their connection with genetic code.
      From the information viewpoint, living organisms are information
essences. They live due to receiving of the genetic information from the
ancestors, and they exist to transfer the genetic information to their
descendants. In the biological literature it is possible quite often now to
meet the statement that living organisms are the texts since a molecular
level of their organization. Just from the information-hereditary viewpoint,
all living organisms are unified wonderfully: all of them have identical
bases of system of genetic coding (from many other possible viewpoints - for
example, locomotion, metabolisms, etc -, living organisms have no such
unification, they are differ one from another in many cases).
       All heritable physiological aspects of living organisms are
co-ordinated with basic structures of genetic code (heritable physiological
subsystems of organism can�t be transmitted to next biological generations
without such agreement with basic mechanisms of genetic coding).
It�s well known, that special musical forms have essential physiological
possibilities to stimulate processes of biological growth, to have therapy
effects, etc. So, it can be supposed, that these musical forms are connected
(co-ordinated) with genetic coding system structurally. And interesting
question is the following: on the base of using of our modern scientific
knowledge of structures of genetic code, can we create musical forms which
will be else more effective in physiological aspects to use them in the
field of mass media, medicine, ergonomics, sport, etc?
     My own investigations in this direction are connected with new results
on genetic code structures. These results are described at the FIS site
http://fis.iguw.tuwien.ac.at/recources/papers.html in my article �Genetic
Code and the Ancient Chinese �Book of Changes�� . An existence of binary
sub-alphabets of genetic code was shown and a biperiodic octet table of 64
genetic triplets was constructed by me there. This genetic biperiodic table
was coincided practically with a historical famous table of 64 hexagrams of
the Ancient Chinese �Book of Changes��, written several thousands years ago
(according to Ancient Chinese statements, the system of this Book is the
main archetype of all nature; this system is a base for many branches of
Orient medicine, culture, philosophy, etc.). If �physiological music� has a
connection with genetic code, the question on its connection with this
ancient conception of archetypes is urgent. According to Ancient Chinese
statements, �music is that that represents a harmony of sky and earth, a
co-ordination of Yin and Yang� (�Lui shi chun tsu�).
    Some of these questions are considered in a special paragraph �Genetic
code and music� in my book: S.V.Petoukhov �Biperiodic Table of Genetic Code
and Number of Protons�, Moscow, 2001, 258 p. (in Russian; information on
this book, on its content, etc. in English is at site
http://members.tripod.com/vismath/sg/petoukhov.htm ).
     I believe that binary sub-alphabets of genetic code and its biperiodic
table permit to investigate a language of music more deeply and to create
special forms of musical compositions characterized by the most
physiological activity (so named �genetic music� or �genomusic�). Perhaps,
due to its structural relationship with genetic code, this genetic music
will be addressed to Jungian archetypes of people by the shortest route. (By
the way, Carl Jung was connoisseur and profound expert of this �Book of
Changes�, and the biperiodic table of genetic code has a connection with
Jungian archetypes).
     This theme of �genetic structured� music is a small addition to very
interesting works by Juan Roederer � Michael Leyton, discussed on this
session. In my opinion, physiological mechanisms and mathematical
formalisms, analyzed by them for a theory of musical perception, should be
coordinated (adjusted) with the specific structure of genetic code. The
biological evolution can be interpreted in a whole as a process of
deployment and duplicating of the certain forms of ordering (they can be
named as �archetypes�). This thesis has a realization in physiological
effective music also.

With best regards
Sergei Petoukhov

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Received on Sun May 11 17:28:25 2003