29 december 2025

29 december 2025

John Bjarne Grover

Some days ago I listened to Trygve Madsen's Symphony #1 which I found very recommendable - it leaves a sound and interesting inspiration in the mind. I listened to it again once or twice in the following day. It seems that this symphony may have come up on the web maybe not so long ago since I tried to find works of him some time ago but did not see this symphony then.

Now I find that even his Piano Concerto #1 has come on youtube.com - seemingly published by the pianist Jens-Harald Bratlie himself (with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen - Live 1983).

On the background of this comment of mine a few days ago, I find that it is very possible to listen to this piano concerto as an interpretation of the theory I suggested in this comment of 24 december - that a piano can be considered a semiotic phenomenon that interprets the second row from above in the illustration from the rock tomb of Meir in Egypt appr. 2000 BC - that is 4000 years ago:

High-resolution version - source Blackman 1914.

which means the following excerpted row whithin which one perhaps even can recognize movements 1-2-3 in the three parts of it (divided by the red lines I have added to the excerpt):

(the excerpt)

I conclude this discussion (in my article on Aristotle) with the following: "This could mean that it would take 4000 years to make one such logical 'string-hook' (say, a chomskyan context-free phrase structure 'hook') which could constitute one level up in information technology" - which is when it is interesting to observe the relevance of Madsen's piano concerto with this rock carving of Meir 4000 years ago.

I cannot find the violin concerto of Madsen for checking against the upper row - he has one opus 141 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra - but it is seemingly not on the web, but I found this viola concerto which claims to be by Madsen but is seemingly not mentioned here among his works. From this page it seems that Madsen has more than the 141 opus mentioned in his list and therefore it is possible that this viola concerto is among the opus which could have fallen out of the list beyond 141 - which could suggest that it is probably not an 'AI' phenomenon based on data from the 'archive'.

Source:

Blackman, A.M.: "The rock tombs of Meir", part I. London 1914.