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Ilari Kaila

Composer and writer, HKUST, Hong Kong

Ilari Kaila is a Finnish-American musician and freelance writer who works as composer-in-residence on the faculty of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and blogs at Limited Hangout.

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A modern concert hall with white, curved architectural elements, rows of black chairs and a grand piano on the stage.

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Contrapuntal consciousness

The music of Bach is full of suggestive structures of counterpoint and recursion (even if Hofstadter got it quite wrong)

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