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Cathal McNaughton / Reuters Last year in Nautilus magazine, the composer Jonathan Berger explained how sound can do that very thing Prince says it can do—stop time. Music creates discrete temporal units but ones that do not typically align with the discrete temporal units in which we measure time. Rather, music embodies (or, rather, is embodied within) a separate, quasi-independent concept of time, able to distort or negate “clock-time.” This other time creates a parallel temporal world in which we are prone to lose ourselves, or at least to lose all semblance of objective time.

 

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