Reading
Books, papers, and essays recommended by SARC but hosted elsewhere.
JAMES TENNEY 1988
Meta-Hodos and META Meta-Hodos
Tenney's application of Gestalt perception to musical form — a foundational text for thinking about how listeners organise sound into structure.
External source music-theory gestalt musical-form perception
STAFFORD BEER 1974
Beer's CBC Massey Lectures analyze why institutions fail through the lens of cybernetics — and how the science of effective organization could be used to redesign them.
External source cybernetics systems institutions
VALENTINO BRAITENBERG 1984
Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
Braitenberg's thought experiments in which simple sensorimotor machines produce lifelike behavior — a foundational text on emergence from minimal parts.
External source cybernetics emergence robotics