The Difference Between Motion and Music

The difference between music abstracted out of its duration and music really experienced. A movement in a piece is really a flow from one thing to another where you can't really locate the points at which change happens. That's precisely what he means when he talks about the difference between the kind of rationalist dissection of reality into slices, into frozen moments that add up to movement. The actual durational experience of flow cannot be broken down into points or slices or frames.

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