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SUMMARY:To the Ear a Great Compassion: Listening\, Counting and Number - S
 teven Connor\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20150121T170000Z
DTEND:20150121T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Well into the nineteenth century\, 'numbers' referred to the m
 etrical or melodious structures of music or writing. In 1589\, George Putt
 enham employed the term 'numerosity' to characterise 'a certain flowing ut
 terance by slipper words and syllables which... breedeth to the ear a grea
 t compassion'. This talk will reflect on the embodied mathematics of liste
 ning\, especially to poetry and music. Number therefore represents the pos
 sibility of a world of absolute indifference. The kind of unconscious coun
 ting that is at work in music\, that is the work of music\, is the effort 
 to capture and neutralise this indifference. But this is in the service of
  a life that must thereby depend upon and pass through that deathly
LOCATION:Recital Room\, Faculty of Music
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