This is for the musicians:
In a song, there is a structure. A tempo, a beat. A scale. This forms the base, the root of the song. If you deviate from the scale, or if you miss the beat, you don't follow the rules of the song; you don't follow the laws of the universe. You have to follow the rules to maintain the aesthetics of the song, you need to follow the laws to maintain the spontaneity of the universe.
What you do within these rules is what makes the difference. It is what makes the million songs in Major scale in 4 by 4 different. There are laws, but you move freely within them.
However, this free movement is only in space. In scale. Not in time, the tempo. The tempo is what guides you and what you can't disobey. While you can even enter restricted regions of the note cycle out of the chosen scale, you can't disregard the tempo.
The tempo is time. The scale is space.
And as old songs live, new ones are born. And none die. A property of recursion.
There are variations, nonetheless.
And infinite possibilities.
Every song is a universe.
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