The Audio Q8 is complicated when broken down into its features and components, but when it is understood as something illustrative of the larger reality, it manifests itself as a symbol. The Q8 is indicative of the times. It’s a milestone much like the A8 from 25 years ago. It is a reflection of the ongoing compounding complexity of man and technology in the modern age. The 8th Dimension encompasses all the other dimensions. It is infinity. It is something that is to come, while it is also something that has been before. The octahedron is one of the 5 Platonic solids--the symbol for air. The Pythagoreans called the number 8 Ogdoad, which, when translated means the “Little Holy Number.”
The beauty of this number can be seen in the Koch Snowflake - one of the earliest fractals to be discovered. The snowflake is built through a process of iterations following an elementary rule based on the number 8. Consequently, the fractal, though enclosed in a restricted area it has an infinite perimeter.
The idea seems like a paradox. Yet, it is an illustration of our experience and what it feels like to be alive, especially in 2020. In our 3 Dimensional perceived reality the Koch Snowflake fraction (a solid with an infinite perimeter within a finite space) begins with a stellated octahedron, what Johannes Kepler called the Stella Octangula or eight-pointed star.
This exploration has at its foundation the Platonic solids. Plato called the Octahedron the symbol for air and as a stellation it takes on a whole new meaning of movement through infinite space and dimension. Pythagoras stands on the left and on the right of the image representing the left and right brain respectively. Flanked on either size by griffins; mythological creatures which stand at the doorway between worlds, we feel a sense of the mystical nature of 8, the number of infinity. The skilful balance between these two binaries is how we experience the world of infinite possibilities. The left is systems of order and structure, the right is a system of picture and intuition. Count the butterflies. Count the people. They all represent the number of the equations which help us comprehend this incredibly complex universe. This picture is filled with numeric clues like the Fibonacci sequence (phi) and Pi.
