2003-06-26 D&G- Sound Machine p343 "a music machine of consistency, a sound machine (not a machine for reproducing sounds), which molecularizes and atomizes, ionizes sound matter, and harnesses a cosmic energy. If this machine must have an assemblage, it is the synthesizer. By assembling modules, source elements, and elements for treating sound (oscillators, generators, and transformers), by arranging microintervals, the synthesizer makes audible the sound process itself, the production of that process, and puts us in contact with still other elements beyond sound matter." [Although it isn't really the point, it makes me think about production and the method of production. We're not seeing emotion as the output of the human machine, we're observing the working of the human machine itself. A CD player doesn't play us the sound recorded, it operates and we observe [hear] the workings of the player [the music].] Another thing: I think I'm beginning to get the distinction between molecular and molar. The molecular is the substrate on which the molar takes place. Like drops of water that make up the ocean. The waves are molar [bulk] properties, not molecular ones. But for the molar to occur there has to be molecular movements -- "becomings". [Bizarrely, I didn't realise that was what 'becomings' meant until the end of the sentence. I was just following out the consequences of the second sentence in this paragraph. And then it fit into place.]