Bach's music pieces feel just like looking at the genome assemblies (sufficient to relate to looking at a single chromosome) under the UCSC Genome Browser, each a melodic sequence of complexity, strewn with repetitive elements, and signposts indicating ends of musical phrases. Each musical phrase itself is anagolous to a gene coded by a sequence of different frequency notes. It is beautiful in its complexity, and something to be studied in all its detail.
Thoughts run through my head: whether or not this is by any chance, God's creation, it is wonderful. It prods human imagination to interpret each of these sequences and the observable trends (e.g. the polymorphisms). It would take many human lifetimes to unravel the mysteries behind the human genome sequence. Just like unravelling the art that J.S. Bach created centuries ago.
Played on Piano by Andras Schiff - English Suite No.6 in D minor, BWV 811: I. Prélude (moonlite/desolation, chaos).
In brackets, contain the visual imagery I perceive in the piece. Basically, darkness dominates as painted by the minor key. It really resembles the famed movement in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Chaos breaks out after the first 2.20 mins. Then come the punch-in-the-face resolution, the final chord.
But that can be said for many of Bach's pieces.
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