posts tagged ‘music’
Listenings
15 September 2011 • listenings
tags: minimal, mix, music, noise, podcasts, radio, sound, techno, water
• Time Axis Manipulation
Mokira
• OR
Kangding Ray
• Signal To Noise: IEC Type II [listen]
Jason Sloan
• Vinyl Matt – Raster-Noton Mix [listen]
Headphone Commute
• Radiauteur #1 [listen]
• The Art of Water Music [listen]
I get up in the morning to the beat of the drum
25 August 2011 • out of context
tags: dreams, music, sound
“I get up in the morning to the beat of the drum. I get up to this feeling, keeps me on the run. I get up in the morning, put my dreams away. I get up, I get up, I get up again.”
Lose Your Soul, Dead Man’s Bones
Readings
24 July 2011 • readings
tags: articles, capitalism, chaos, comics, hauntology, music, perception, politics, statements, vampires, zombies
• Mis problemas con Amenabar
Jordi Costa, Darío Adanti
• Las casualidades no existen [leer]
Borja Vilaseca, El País
• Political Music [read]
David Smooke
• Bats, Rats and Packs [read]
Eugene Thacker
• Capitalist Monsters
Steven Shaviro
• Hauntology: A not-so-new critical manifestation [read]
Andrew Gallix, The Guardian
Listenings
22 July 2011 • listenings
tags: civilization, electricity, minimal, music, noise, radio, sound
• Touch Radio 59 | Ghost of Gnathonemus Petersii (2011) [listen]
Phantom Airwaves
• You are listening to Montréal [listen]
• Dead Man’s Bones (2009)
Dead Man’s Bones
• It Took Several Wives (1982)
Bohack
• ID
Cyclo
• The Radius Episode 01: Michael Woody “Numbers Station 1 & 2″ [listen]
Michael Woody
• The Radius Episode 02: Margaret Noble “Frakture: George Orwell’s Novel “1984” Remixed” [listen]
Margaret Noble
• Tender Prey
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Doblegaron y quebraron a los hombres con los ritos y la música
10 July 2011 • out of context
tags: books, control, music, politics, quotes
“Cuando aparecieron los sabios, doblegaron y quebraron a los hombres con los ritos y la música, para así corregir las formas y actitudes de todo el mundo; y presentaron como modelo la benevolencia y la justicia, para consuelo de los corazones del mundo entero. Sólo entonces el pueblo se lanzó a la carrera en pos del conocimiento, y empezó a luchar ahincadamente por las ventajas materiales. Y ya no se pudo parar. De todo lo cual los solos culpables fueron los sabios“.
Exijan Música de mobiliario
5 July 2011 • out of context
tags: music, quotes, sound
La Música de mobiliario es básicamente industrial.
La costumbre, el uso, es hacer música en ocasiones en que la música no tiene nada que hacer… Queremos establecer una música que satisfaga las “necesidades útiles”. El arte no entra en estas necesidades.
La Música de mobiliario crea una vibración; no tiene otro objeto; desempeña el mismo papel que la luz, el calor y el confort en todas sus formas…
Exijan Música de mobiliario.
Ni reuniones, ni asambleas, etc. sin Música de mobiliario…
No se case sin Música de mobiliario.
No entre en una casa en la que no haya Música de mobiliario.
Quien no ha oído la Música de mobiliario desconoce la felicidad.
No se duerma sin escuchar un fragmento de Música de mobiliario o dormirá usted mal.
Erik Satie
Wikipedia
Wandering
25 June 2011 • out of context
tags: books, music, painting, quotes, walking
“Si se me permite decirlo, declaro además que en la pared de la casita campaban pinturas murales o sublimes frescos celestialmente delicados y graciosos, que representaban un paisaje de los Alpes suizos en el que había pintada otra casita, una casa de las tierras altas de Berna. En verdad, la pintura en sí no valía nada. Sería osado querer afirmar otra cosa. Pero aun así se me antojaba espléndida. Simple y sin adorno como era, me encantaba; en realidad me encanta cualquier pintura, por necia e inhábil que sea, porque toda pintura recuerda, primero, la actividad y el celo, y segundo, a Holanda. ¿Acaso no es hermosa toda música, incluso la más limitada, para aquel que ama la esencia y la existencia de la música? ¿No es cualquier persona, hasta la más malvada y desagradable, amable para el filántropo?”.
El paseo
Robert Walser
Backmasking
22 June 2011 • out of context
tags: language, music, quotes, recording
“Backmasking (also known as backward masking) is a recording technique in which a sound or message is recorded backward on to a track that is meant to be played forward.”
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