Murat Güneş

Notes on things I've been reading and thinking about: cells, sound, electronic music, note taking and memory systems, and how they all relate.

There are 31 of them, grouped by the month they were last edited.

This is still an experiment; you may run into some rough edges. For now, it is sparsely linked, the reading notes come from a couple of books, and you will likely step on debris I forgot to clean.

September 2026

  1. Memory systems are about taking ownership of ideas
  2. Notes on “Wrestling with text”

April 2025

  1. Microorganisms are physically changed upon contact with various chemicals in their environment
  2. A living cell contains an image of the world because it is born of the world
  3. Cellular processes work with “addresses” through microtubules and transport molecules
  4. Noise has determining influence over genetic processes
  5. Proteins in cell must change their connections (morph) to learn new tasks
  6. Reinforcement of synapses in neural processes is possibly “neural recruitment” (after Lakoff)
  7. Replicating molecules enclosed themselves in lipid containers at some stage of the RNA World
  8. The protein landscape of the cell constantly morphs in response to its environment
  9. Thermal diffusion is the mediator for cellular computation
  10. “There are no wires” - The mechanism of cellular computation is diffusion and genetic code
  11. An attention-like mechanism must exist for the cell to respond to simultaneous stimuli
  12. Biochemical processes at cell level are built to accommodate massive change
  13. Bray, Wetware (2009)
  14. Catalytic closure as defining trait of living organisms
  15. Living cells have an intrinistic sensitivity to their environment that is essential to survival
  16. Living organisms build and repair themselves with commonly available starting materials
  17. Molecular radar

March 2025

  1. Sound material determines outcome in electronic music composition
  2. Novelty in electronic music arises through familiarity

February 2025

  1. Utilizing full range of sound negates interval thinking
  2. Distinction between note based vs. timbral/textural approaches transcends electronic vs. acoustic music divide
  3. Economy of selection in electronic music, after Roads
  4. Electronic sounds from a computer are of indistinct provenance
  5. Multiscale approach to composing, after Roads
  6. Problems of musical organization range across electronic-acoustic music divide
  7. Roads, Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic (2015)
  8. Satisficing, after Simon
  9. Timbre is ill-defined
  10. Succintness in sound, after Utley

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