Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Murrey Gell-Mann examines the very nature of complexity in his book, The Quark and the Jaguar. He draws a distinction between complexity in general and effective complexity. While systems can be very complex in term of their constituent parts, these fragments may form patterns that reduce the effective complexity of the system as a whole. Conversely, even if a system is entirely disorganized, it still has low effective complexity because everything is

To anyone who goes to a concert expecting the kind of synthetic, postproduction perfection common in commercial, classical recordings, the Henschel Quartett’s performance presented by the New Mexico Performing Arts Society on June 18th in Santa Fe may have been disappointing, but for those who know that live chamber music is a complex, visceral experience, the concert proved to be truly inspiring. The Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel posed sonic difficulties to the Quartet ear