Abstract
This is a work about the incompleteness of language and the interactions between arts and science, drama and logic, synthesis and analysis. These reflections about language are composed of a musical excerpt and a text. In a speach, rational thinking and emotions often are on the same level of importance: in particular I think that reason can be an important source of emotions.

Notes
This project was started in February 1998, and completed in October 1998. The artwork was completed about an year later. Music was recorded on limited edition tapes.
The .mp3 files were encoded using the LAME v3.58 (-h).

Description
This project is divided in seven parts: each one is composed of a musical excerpt and a text, deeply interconnected.

Index:

1. Incompleteness
2. First try
3. 2.021
4. Consequences
5. Now logic doesn't work
6. Interactions
7. Symbol

Contents:

PART 1: Incompleteness
text: none
music length: 5.43
format: mp3
sample ffrequency: 44.1 khz
bit rate: 112 kbit/sec
filename: incompleteness.mp3
size: 4604 Kb

PART 2: First try
text: firsttry.html, primotentativo.html
music length: 6.27
format: mp3
sample frequency: 44.1 khz
bit rate: 128 kbit/s
filename: firs_128hc.zip
size: 5990 Kb

PART 3: 2.021
text: 2.021.html, 2.021.ita.html
music length:7.01
format: mp3
sample frequency: 44.1 khz
bit rate: 112 kbit/s
filename: 2021_112hc.zip
size: 5655 Kb

PART 4: Consequences
text: consequences.html
music length: 4.14
format: mp3
sample frequency: 22.050 khz
variable bit rate: 56..128 kbit/sec
filename: consequences.mp3
size: 3022 Kb

PART 5: Now logic doesn't work
text: none
music length: 12.55
nldw.mp3 - unavaiable

PART 6: Interactions
text: interactions.html, interazioni.html
music length: 6.13
format: mp3
sample frequency: 44.1 khz
bit rate: 112 kbit/s
filename: interactions.mp3
size: 5004 Kb

PART 7: Symbol
text: symbol.html
music length: 6.40
format: mp3
sample frequency: 44.1 khz
bit rate: 128 kbit/s
filename: symb_128hc.zip
size: 6153 Kb

You can download all the texts in a single bundle. Choose:

• bcal_html_eng.zip (html format, english)
• bcal_ita.zip (word and pure text format, italian) (temporarily unavailable)
• bcal_rtf_eng.zip (RTF and pure text format, english) (temporarily unavailable)

References
- V.Kandinsky: Über das geistige in der kunst, insbesondere in der malerei(1912).
- S.R.Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection (a cura di T.Krens, con G.Celant, L.Dennison): Da van Gogh a Picasso Da Kandinsky a Pollock Il percorso dell’arte moderna – Venice 1990 exhibition catalogue, Bompiani.
- L.Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922).
- C.Morris: Foundations of the Theory of Signs (1938); Signs, Language, and Behavior (1946).
- D.R.Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid (1979).
- E.Rich, K.Knight: Artificial Intelligence, second edition, McGraw Hill (1992).
- L.Console, E.Lamma, P.Mello: Programmazione logica e Prolog, UTET (1991).
- H.Abelson, G.J.Sussman, J.Sussman: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, second edition, Mit Press (1996).

Notes
* Originally "First try", "2.021" and "Interactions" were written in Italian, and subsequently translatedin English with the help of Paola Barillari. "Consequences" and "Symbol" were written directly in English.
* All the stuff avaiable here applies to the latest version.

Thanks
Special thanks to you for listening and reading. You can tell me your impressions, comments and suggestions about this work.
Special thanks to Massimo Casadei Della Chiesa for the sampler and the MS50, and to Paola for the translation advices.

Version history

Version 1.21
November, 1999. First page of the booklet modified again.

Version 1.2
November, 1999. Paola Barillari gave me some help in the hard work of translation: she corrected the English translation of "First Try", "2.021", "Interactions". Thank you Paola. Many changes were made on the booklet: the first page was modified; a references section and a very apt Locke's quotation were added. A new way of printing has been found: now the booklet can be obtained through the ink-jet printer of my computer system. This is far better than lame photocopies; and moreover this way I finally gained the complete indipendence from the outside world: everything is conceived, produced and generated at home (ok, everything but the translations.... but it was just a matter of correction :-P). Now everything is stored in digital format. A great issue concerning the recording of "2.021" (from h.d. to tape) has been resolved (to some extent): in past times this problem obliged me to record "2.021" at a very low level, therefore even the other songs of the same side were conditioned by this oddity.

Version 1.1
July, 1999. The music-part of "2.021" has been totally re-programmed. Other minor changes and corrections in "Interaction" (text part). First print of the booklet. All music has been dumped on hard disk and recorded as .wav files, with no additional edit.

Version 1.0
October, 1998. BCAL musical excerpts and texts have been completed: system is stable and functioning. All rock recorded with analog devices. The texts are still handwritten.