The obvious and the meaningful

7 September 2010 • out of context
tags: books, meaning, minimal, quotes

“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.”

The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda

Readings

7 September 2010 • readings
tags: articles, body, books, capitalism, civilization, fantasy, fiction, found, history, liberation, minimal, music, novels, plagiarism, poetry, politics, situationism, vampires

• Medicina tradicional china [leer]
Daniel Reid. Ediciones Urano. 1999.

• Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
Colin Ward. Oxford University Press. 2004.

• The Laws of Simplicity
John Maeda. The MIT Press. 2006.

• A User’s Guide to Détournement [read]
Guy Debord & Gil J Wolman. 1956.

• On Found Poetry (A FOUND INTRODUCTION) [read]
John Robert Colombo
From Open Poetry, (Ronald Gross & George Quasha, eds., 1973)

• A Day in the Life of a Musician [read]
Erik Satie

• Dead and Gone
Charlaine Harris. 2009.

Listenings

7 September 2010 • listenings
tags: minimal, music, phonography, sound

• Exp (2010)
Frank Bretschneider

• Raum 318 [listen]
Asmus Tietchens

• Koan [listen]
Noi

• A Journey South [listen]
Chris Watson

Listenings

1 September 2010 • listenings
tags: live, minimal, music, phonography, podcasts, radio, sound, techno

• Deepchord presents Echospace (live)

• Mørketid (2007)
Netherworld

• Frozen Border 01 (2009)
Frozen Border

• Lux (2010)
Alex Smoke

• Framework radio #294: 2010.07.25 [listen]

How much is lost in waiting?

31 August 2010 • out of context
tags: books, consumism, minimal, perception, quotes, time

“The average person spends at least an hour a day waiting in line. Add to this the uncountable seconds, minutes, weeks spent waiting for something that might have no line at all.

Some of that waiting is subtle. We wait for water to come out of the faucet when we turn the knob. We wait for water on the stove to boil, and start to feel impatient. We wait for the seasons to change. Some of the waiting we do is less subtle, and can often be tense or annoying: waiting for a Web page to load, waiting in bumper-to-bumper traffic, or waiting for the results of a dreaded medical test.

No one likes to suffer the frustration of waiting. Thus all of us, consumers and companies alike, often try to find ways to beat the ticking hand of time. We go out of our way to find the quickest option or any other means to reduce our frustration.”

The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda

Listenings

18 August 2010 • listenings
tags: mathematics, minimal, music, noise, radio, sound, techno

• Time Frost (2007)
Rapoon

• Ret Marut Handshake (2010)
anbb

• Textstar (2010)
Farben

• Bioroid (2007)
Silicon Scally

• Omega (2010)
Robert Hood

• COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #1. Continue (2010) [listen]
Ràdio Web Macba

Listenings

14 August 2010 • listenings
tags: minimal, music, noise, sound, techno, waves

• Homage to the Square Wave (2008)
Eleh

• Time Examined (2009)
Mika Vainio

• Consumed (1998)
Plastikman

• Ex Machina (2007)
Aril Brikha

• Immersion: One (2006)
Steve Roach

Listenings

24 February 2010 • listenings
tags: live, minimal, music, noise, patterns, phonography, sound, techno, water

• Live at Club Transmediale (2008) [listen]
Pure

• Ström (2001)
Carl Michael von Hausswolff

• Weather Report (2003)
Chris Watson

• Palimpsest (2004)
Yasunao Tone & Hecker

• Vox Tinnitus (1999)
CoH

• I Plead Guilty (12″) (2004)
Horror Inc.

• The Beach (2004)
Morane

Watchings

22 January 2010 • watchings
tags: cinema, fantasy, grain, minimal, visualmusic

• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Terry Gilliam

• Time Piece (1965) [watch]
Jim Henson

• Film for Invisible Ink (2006)
David Gatten

• Pneuma (1977-1983)
Nathaniel Dorsky

• Alaya (1976-1987)
Nathaniel Dorsky

• Axiomatic Granularity (1972-73)
Paul Sharits

• Shadow Trap (2007)
Greg Pope