I am the man who in toystore reels back from model robot figure labeled 'Deep space star scream'.
My head is forever replaying John Cage's Fifty-eight which i got out of the library (Wellington central) late 1999/early 2000; oh how i would like to listen to those beehive sounding strings (or wind instruments?) again; as i now live in an area whose library system is -- how shall i write this -- broad but commercially minded, i now must either buy a 'collectible' copy 49$USD via Amazon.com or download from the mediafire/blog paradigm. I feel being mistreated to have to buy a 'collectible' copy for 49$USD (60.45$NZD? as of 05.2011); i suppose i will wait, i non want to pay for what is available, yet am very uneasy about downloading something for 'free' that is available commercially; what would Cage do? Concoct my own version based on memory!?
Repeat above text for the composers Toshio Hosokawa's 'Landscapes I - II - V, Fragmente II, Vertical Time Study III', and Henri Pousseur's '8 Etudes Paraboliques in 4 CDS'. Music is distraction from the logos anyway? Or music is logos for that which has no words, the rather unhearable sounds of the universal cosmos! And therefore non distraction but mindwarp ultra, music of no words, the reasonings of planets, moons, stars, nebulae, comets, chemical chains, intelligence, the tool, and black holes.
Do i want to be newmedia anarchistic type, riddled with copyright infringement paranoia? Might make me a hit with my contemporaries, but what of my soul?!
Tempted and riddled, out.
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Modern ambient music's 1884 prophecy
· De la musique avant toute chose,
Et pour cela préfère l'Impair
Plus vague et plus soluble dans l'air
Sans rien en lui qui pèse ou qui pose.
· Let's hear the music first and foremost,
And that means no more one-two-one-twos…
Something more vague instead, something lighter
Dissolving in air, weightless as air.
Et pour cela préfère l'Impair
Plus vague et plus soluble dans l'air
Sans rien en lui qui pèse ou qui pose.
· Let's hear the music first and foremost,
And that means no more one-two-one-twos…
Something more vague instead, something lighter
Dissolving in air, weightless as air.
A prophecy to/for ambient music? From 1884!
Oh your furniture music Satie, and your Eno's ticking vapourscapes, abloom, abloom, you fetching things!
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Ersatzism in the culture
Drum machines are an ersatz experience.
Drum machines offer an ersatz experience to an ersatz world, a world saturated in images of the image, extended studio recording techniques, special effects, and marketed youth feeding on there own personality image.
In the postpostmodern world ersatzism is accepted to the point of invisible unremarkability and has been for quite some time.
The ancient law giving 'lords' (the blue cone head flat faced almond eyed beings?) have been replaced by confused mirrors of cultural strains.
People being quite blatently and even knowingly guided by image media culture, living ersatz pop lives, until maybe one day they find themselves in a situation that television etc has non prepared them for, what then, well it's called freedom my friends.
Drum machines offer an ersatz experience to an ersatz world, a world saturated in images of the image, extended studio recording techniques, special effects, and marketed youth feeding on there own personality image.
In the postpostmodern world ersatzism is accepted to the point of invisible unremarkability and has been for quite some time.
The ancient law giving 'lords' (the blue cone head flat faced almond eyed beings?) have been replaced by confused mirrors of cultural strains.
People being quite blatently and even knowingly guided by image media culture, living ersatz pop lives, until maybe one day they find themselves in a situation that television etc has non prepared them for, what then, well it's called freedom my friends.
Monday, 9 May 2011
Absolute computer music inspires abstract writing exercise
Track names written post production of the tracks as an idea/experiment;
the contents of tracks is of course an attempt at absolute computer music
and thus have no name such as these (except in meta-other-multi-parallel universe).
01. Blocks of intentions with a curious twist - 1:03
02. Pure sonic travel (bubbles, love, and L.A.S.E.R.) - 7:43
03. Organ ground; space, shapes, sphere fear - 10:36
04. Experimental focus: A (abyssal change) - 11:12
05. Experimental focus: B (shelter destroy) - 12:47
06. Sound events in time - 6:55
07. What point the likeness - 0:56
08. Reaction Z - 3:03
09. Gravel and Weet-bix - 6:23
10. Pockets of unusual debris - 3:18
11. Talk and carress of splatter and leaves - 1:20
12. Cartoon war (be non afraid) - 4:07
13. Solidity departs, blue sparks remain - 1:00
01. Sonic masonry: Destruction and re-birth 1 - 2:30
02. Sonic masonry: Destruction and re-birth 2 - 2:03
03. The unconscious now: More than sense experience? - 1:03
04. Sonic masonry: Destruction and re-birth 3 - 9:38
05. Colliding fields of sonic pressures: Slow motion - 9:55
06. Sonic masonry: Destruction and re-birth 4 - 10:11
07. V.R. electronic prison, deluxe - 0:47
08. Apex and base: Dream masks of the blue beings - 0:55
09. Mild curry lessons with violin string: Steppenwolf awareness - 0:23
10. Apex and base: Baboon mathematics - 0:55
11. Bright eyes in a dark cave: Crystal mind - 5:00
12. De-atomisation of a banana (prickly heat) - 3:34
13. Digital prisms of vegetal consciousness? - 0:45
14. Ancestor dream: I am now manifested light - 0:27
15. Dance of the bizzare parliamentary rhetoric (netball coach) - 0:41
16. Key way - 2:31
17. Harbour beginning with planes of love - 3:28
18. Even sometimes see the future - 8:28
19. Polynesian fire and fire and fire - 4:59
20. Linear rise and fade, the multicoursal return is a given - 0:52
21. Sonic platitudes of out of my head invasionisms - 1:30
01. White butterfly
the contents of tracks is of course an attempt at absolute computer music
and thus have no name such as these (except in meta-other-multi-parallel universe).
01. Blocks of intentions with a curious twist - 1:03
02. Pure sonic travel (bubbles, love, and L.A.S.E.R.) - 7:43
03. Organ ground; space, shapes, sphere fear - 10:36
04. Experimental focus: A (abyssal change) - 11:12
05. Experimental focus: B (shelter destroy) - 12:47
06. Sound events in time - 6:55
07. What point the likeness - 0:56
08. Reaction Z - 3:03
09. Gravel and Weet-bix - 6:23
10. Pockets of unusual debris - 3:18
11. Talk and carress of splatter and leaves - 1:20
12. Cartoon war (be non afraid) - 4:07
13. Solidity departs, blue sparks remain - 1:00
01. Sonic masonry: Destruction and re-birth 1 - 2:30
02. Sonic masonry: Destruction and re-birth 2 - 2:03
03. The unconscious now: More than sense experience? - 1:03
04. Sonic masonry: Destruction and re-birth 3 - 9:38
05. Colliding fields of sonic pressures: Slow motion - 9:55
06. Sonic masonry: Destruction and re-birth 4 - 10:11
07. V.R. electronic prison, deluxe - 0:47
08. Apex and base: Dream masks of the blue beings - 0:55
09. Mild curry lessons with violin string: Steppenwolf awareness - 0:23
10. Apex and base: Baboon mathematics - 0:55
11. Bright eyes in a dark cave: Crystal mind - 5:00
12. De-atomisation of a banana (prickly heat) - 3:34
13. Digital prisms of vegetal consciousness? - 0:45
14. Ancestor dream: I am now manifested light - 0:27
15. Dance of the bizzare parliamentary rhetoric (netball coach) - 0:41
16. Key way - 2:31
17. Harbour beginning with planes of love - 3:28
18. Even sometimes see the future - 8:28
19. Polynesian fire and fire and fire - 4:59
20. Linear rise and fade, the multicoursal return is a given - 0:52
21. Sonic platitudes of out of my head invasionisms - 1:30
01. White butterfly
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