he who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights a taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
Thomas Jefferson, writing to Isaac McPherson in 1813.
Full text at: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.html
Listening structures. Structures emitting sounds and being structured by the sounds they receive.
in response to Duchamp’s note on musical sculpture.
The self-determined sample player with slidey ‘cello pizz. This is the kind of sonic prosthesis I’ve been after for a while !
I’ve left the TM beads audio off noise in as I’ve become rather fond of it.
Next to get it going in a live set up.
As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes…
Denis Diderot, Encyclopédie (1755)
French writer and philosopher Denis Diderot published in the Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société‚ de gens de lettres an article entitled Encyclopédie. In that he explained that a primary reason for undertaking this enormous writing and publishing project was to manage information overload by providing a rational and comprehensible order to what was already an almost impossibly large and disorganized body of information.
The basic claim of science is objectivity: it attempts, through the application of a well defined methodology, to make statements about the universe. At the very root of this claim, however, lies its weakness: the a priori assumption that objective knowledge constitutes a description of that which his known. Such an assumption begs the question ‘What is it to know?’ and ‘How do we know?’.
Musical sculpture. Sounds lasting and leaving from different places and forming a sounding sculpture which lasts.
The Machine as heard in the middle of the Information age?
The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age was an exhibition of work by over a hundred artists, from 15th to 20th century which illustrated the historical intersections of art and technology.
… the sound arriving at the ear is the analogue of the current state of the physical environment, because as the wave travels, it is charged by each interaction with the environment
self-determined sample #2: the sprid
The playback process described previously is used to playing a dripping tap sample.
Applied to a low amplitude, hi(ish) fidelity recording, you begin to get a nice sense of exploration. Even with this slightly crude experiment, you start to really hear the details of the tiny sounds in a new way, not unlike the distorted visual magnifications of a water drop …
This makes me think about these types of self-referential processes as meta-active (as opposed to interactive).
To do:
- Work out why clicks occur
- non-linear envelopes for oscbank amplitudes (they end a bit suddenly at the moment)
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