感應 (resonance)

13 June 2011 • out of context
tags: books, earth, meaning, music, quotes, sound, space, time

“ganying 感應 resonance, stimulus and response

“Resonance” is a central operative principle of the cosmos as conceived by the Huainanzi. The phrase itself means “stimulus” (gan 感) and “response” (ying 應), which is how we have translated it when the Huainanzi refers specifically to the discrete component processes that the term denotes. Fundamentally, “resonance” is a process of dynamic interaction that transcends the limits of time, space, and ordinary linear causality. Through the mechanism of resonance, an event in one location (the “stimulus’”) produces simultaneous effects in another location (the “response”), even though the two phenomena have no direct spatial or mechanical contact. They may indeed be separated by vast gulfs of space. For example, connections between celestial events (eclipses, planetary motions) and events in the human community were understood as examples of “resonance”.

For the authors of the Huainanzi, such connections were not coincidence or mere correspondence but dynamic influences exchanged through the energetic medium of qi. All phenomena are both composed of and impelled by qi, and since all currently differentiated qi emerged from an originally undifferentiated Grand One, all qi remains mutually resonantly linked. The pathways of resonance are not random, however. Objects are most sensitive to resonant influences emanating from other objects that share the same constituent form of qi.

The best example of this is an empirically observable phenomenon often cited by ancient authors to illustrate the concept of resonance itself: the harmonic resonance observable among musical instruments. If a string tuned to the pentatonic note gong on one qin is plucked, for example, the corresponding string on a separate qin will be perceived to vibrate. This was thought to occur because of the presence of Earth qi which is responsible for the note gong in both instruments. When the Earth qi in the first instrument is activated (the stimulus), the corresponding Earth qi note in the other resonates (the response).

Such interactions were thought to be operative in the universe at all times. Someone who understood the patterns of these interactions could manipulate them to produce marvelous and beneficial effects across space-time.”

The Huainanzi
Columbia University Press

Listenings

25 January 2011 • listenings
tags: earth, electricity, live, minimal, music, noise, sound, waves

• Décade – Anne-James Chaton, Alva Noto and Andy Moor (live)

• Rising Down (2006) [listen]
Pablo Sanz Almoguera

• Pruitt Igoe
Kangding Ray

• Multistability
Mark Fell

• Auroral Sphere [listen]
John Grzinich

• Noifromm (live)

• Edwin van der Heide (live)

• Errorsmith (live)

• Evol (live)

• Mark Fell (live)

• Marcus Schmickler (live)

• Curtis Roads (live)

La herida únicamente puede curarse con la lanza que la hizo

20 January 2011 • out of context
tags: analysis, articles, civilization, earth, nature, quotes, science

O, como dice un párrafo de Parsifal, de Wagner, “la herida únicamente puede curarse con la lanza que la hizo”. (…) Entren al perverso placer del martirio prematuro: “¡Ofendimos a la Madre Naturaleza, así que recibimos lo que merecemos!”. Estar dispuesto a asumir la culpa de las amenazas a nuestro medio ambiente es algo engañosamente tranquilizador. Si somos culpables, entonces todo depende de nosotros; podemos salvarnos simplemente cambiando nuestro estilo de vida. Desesperada y obsesivamente reciclamos papel viejo, compramos comida orgánica, lo que sea para asegurarnos de que hacemos algo, que contribuimos. (…) El hecho de que las cenizas del modesto estallido volcánico en Islandia hicieran aterrizar a la mayoría de los aviones en Europa es un muy necesitado recordatorio del grado en que nosotros, los humanos, con nuestro tremendo poder sobre la naturaleza, no somos nada más que otra de las especies vivientes sobre la Tierra, y dependemos del delicado equilibrio de sus elementos.

2010: El fin de la naturaleza by Slavoj Zizek

Watchings

20 September 2010 • watchings
tags: cinema, earth, fiction, love, music, television, tv series, vampires

• The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Nicolas Roeg

• The Pirate (1948)
Vincente Minnelli

• True Blood, Season 3 (2010)
Allan Ball

• Sons of Anarchy, Seasons 1-2 (2008-2009)
Kurt Sutter

• Misfits, Season 1 (2009)
Howard Overman

Haunted Mind

3 August 2010 • outer
tags: documentaries, earth, electricity, hallucinations, nature, perception

“Broadcaster Don Hill saw and felt a chilling apparition in the basement of his house. The house had reportedly been haunted for years, driving out many occupants. A four-year odyssey to discover the truth behind the ghostly encounters turned up some startling new science which suggests that weak electromagnetic fields, naturally occurring in the environment, are responsible for stimulating mystical experiences, UFO reports and especially, ghostly entities and poltergeist phenomena.”

This quote talks about a documentary entitled Haunted House, Haunted Mind that I haven’t watch. I”m not interested in ghosts, UFOs and paranormal phenomena, but I’m interested in electromagnetic fields and mystical experiences, so maybe it’s worth to remember this film.

Tsuyu

22 July 2010 • out of context
tags: earth, nature, rain, weather

Tsuyu = 梅雨
梅 (plum) + 雨 (rain) [plums ripen when it starts to rain at the end of the spring, and then it follows 40 rainy days].

“The East Asian rainy season (…) is the frontal precipitation caused by a front, a persistent east-west zone of disturbed weather during spring which is quasi-stationary and stretches from the east China coast, across Taiwan, and eastward into the southern peninsula of South Korea and Japan.”

I find out about Tsuyu at The Japan Photo Project Blog.

Listenings

10 November 2009 • listenings
tags: anechoic, earth, music, phonography, sound, water

• Anechoic Pulse (Remix) (2004)
Panayiotis Kokoras [listen]

• Earth Music (2009) [listen]

• Airs (1999)
Achim Wollscheid

• Into India (2002)
Hildegard Westerkamp

• Seuchengebiete 2 (1992)
Asmus Tietchens