I like FAST

(especially when it takes l o n g e r )

Scaling is used as much in the arts as in the sciences and can be described as one of the fundamental techniques of research. My talk will have a look on questions of size and scale and provide examples from different disciplines. I will give a special focus on ac- and deceleration of acoustic time scales, i.e. on the technique of audification, that has been used and discussed in different scientific disciplines since the 19th century, but also by many artists and musicians. Just to mention one, Jean Cocteau, who wrote in the 1950ies: „Die Welt des Tons ist durch die noch unbekannte Welt des Ultraschalls bereichert worden. Wir werden erfahren, daß die Fische schreien, daß die Meere von Lärm erfüllt sind, und wir werden wissen, daß die Leere bevölkert ist von realistischen Geistern, in deren Augen wir ebenfalls Geister sind.“ („Kino und Poesie. Notizen“. Frankfurt a. M.: Ullstein, 1983, pp. 36f.)