Hofstadter!
Remember in one of his books (or maybe Metamagical Temas? article in Sci. American) when he demonstrated the score for some Chopin etudes? And went on to relate the eye's perception of the score, not unlike bevies of nascnt {{{{s?
I have come to believe that pointillism without dots is a quick road to disaster, while dots without pointillism is pointless.
-- T. Pratchett on acid