heteronomy is the condition of all things

heteronomy is the condition of all things

heteronomy is the condition of all things

heteronomy is the condition of all things

heteronomy is the condition of all things

heteronomy is the condition of all things

heteronomy is the condition of all things

heteronomy is the condition of all things

heteronomy is the condition of all things

heteronomy is the condition of all things

heteronomy is the condition of all things

heteronomy is the condition of all things

heteronomy is the condition of all things

heteronomy is the condition of all things

heteronomy is the condition of all things

heteronomy is the condition of all things

heteronomy is the condition of all things

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This new work was created for Lateral Addition between March - June 2021 in Berlin using the SuperCollider audio synthesis programming environment, then edited in a timeline. The source is a synthesized ‚siren‘ sound, which was recorded out and loaded into nuPg (New Pulsar Generator*); following manipulation of the sound file, the recorded output was then loaded into a custom-coded granular synthesis instrument for further transformation before finally entering the timeline. All material in the composition was generated from a single audio file.

On the macro-compositional level, heteronomy is the condition of all things presents alternations of sections and materials in an evolving manner, working with time proportions and repetition to both organise a sense of rhythm and to support processes of aural definition and retention, and more broadly to align with the artists’ pursuits into understanding the extent to which external forces create our notions of self.

* The New Pulsar Generator by Marcin Pietruszewski is based on the original Pulsar Generator from Curtis Roads and Alberto de Campo.Pulsar synthesis is essentially a train of filtered pulses generating signals that emit frequencies in the range between rhythm and tone; these filtered pulses transform sound samples through cross-synthesis. The novel program was originally named after ‘the spinning neutron stars that emit periodic signals in the range of 0.25 Hz to 642 Hz.’- from Microsounds by Curtis Roads (MIT Press, 2001)

Hi Fan Services,

Thanks for getting back to me with regard to performances of the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium. I have not been back to a home game since COVID-19 regulations have changed, and while I’m a big fan of Dieter Ruehle’s organ, I’m glad to hear that on-field performances are back!

With that in mind, I’d like to submit my friend and colleague Caroline Portu for your consideration as a performer of the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium.

I recently met Caroline on the set of a Christmas film near Boston where we were both working as actors, and have since become aware of her tremendous singing ability — especially as it relates to The Star Spangled Banner. I learned that, back home in New England, she frequently sang at sporting events for Boston College (graduated ‘17) and also sang at Fenway Park.

Caroline recently moved to Los Angeles and I think a great introduction to the city, and vice versa, would be to put her skill and expertise to work in the service of our local team, singing the song on the field before a home game.

Would this be possible?

We made the attached recordings as a demonstration. The first file includes a long delay and a slight emulation of a PA — an idea of what Caroline might sound like in the big outdoor space at Dodger Stadium, minus the crowd.

The second version is clean.

Thanks for your consideration, and please let me know if you would like more information or if there is a more specific or appropriate address to send this query.

Go Dodgers!

- TM

vocal performance and editing by Caroline Portu, engineering by Chris McLaughlin

Writing About The Names

A statement

The Names is a new Berlin/Amsterdam collective of creative musicians playing open, yet melodic, pieces in a Cage/Oliveros informed spectrum of improvised strategies and open-ended compositions. Giving homage to the Chicago tradition of AACM music as well as praise to progressive thinking in society, highlighting people such as Angela Davis, Michelle Alexander, Audre Lorde and composers such as Anthony Braxton, Eva-Maria Houben, and George Lewis, whose names, along with the names of band members and friends, have been used as the melodic or structural impetus of each composition.

Shaped by the ideas of critical music, listening and sounding practices, and the position of the post-musical, the group combines playing musical material with reflections on public space, society, and the world of ideas at large. For now, the music revolves around the open-ended compositions and arrangements of Koen Nutters, which serve as a conduit for each member’s personal and musical expressions. Each member, as a composer in their own right, is invited to contribute material to the collective’s repertoire.

That’s easy to say...

Of course name dropping is easy; but maybe this is what it takes for a European, white, cis male with some kind of conscience to dare to even get near what used to be called Jazz music. I am aware. I am cautious to speak. But I won’t be paralyzed by guilt. I am trying to do something right through music, and through community, through society, through being socially conscious without feeling hip about it. And even if I am; I hope something good will come out of it anyway. What I’m saying is: the only way I can engage with this music, this inspiration from my teenage years, is by making it about the originators of this very material. Composing the melodies by taking their names and connecting them to our endeavors to make collective, creative music. Our band: The Names. We are not imitating, perhaps referencing, hopefully mostly being inspired to do our own thing, our own music, our own expression of unity, hope, and creativity. Reflecting on how we would like society to improve itself through our collective engagement in doing what we love to do under fair conditions and making it available for anyone who wants to hear it, in concert halls, streets, squares, squats, anywhere...

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Much propaganda is being done for the view that people are motivated by self-interest, the desire for money or fame or both. This is not true. The majority of people have a definite need to feel that they are serving the community in some way. We need the feeling that we are performing a useful function in society and not just living off society or other individuals in a parasitic way.

Cornelius Cardew - Stockhausen Serves Imperialism pp. 60-61

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“You will notice that I do not use the word ‘jazz’ to speak about my music. However, I like the word ‘jazz,’ It sounds good, it’s a great invention as a term, but I don’t consider myself to be a jazz musician—and I’m in the process of asking myself if I’m even a musician at all.”

Anthony Braxton quoted in George Lewis’s A Power Stronger Than Itself p. 328

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[It] is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing. Once we know the extent to which we are capable of feeling that sense of satisfaction and completion, we can then observe which of our various life endeavors bring us closest to that fullness.

...the power which comes from sharing deeply any pursuit with another person. The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

Audre Lorde - Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, 1978

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“Sonic agency is expounded upon as a means for enabling new conceptualizations of the public sphere and expressions of emancipatory practices - to consider how particular subjects and bodies, individuals and collectivities creatively negotiate systems of domination, gaining momentum and guidance through listening and being heard, sounding and unsounding particular acoustics of assembly and resistance.

Brandon Labelle - Sonic Agency p. 4

Wants and interests

I wanted to give musicians a starting point for getting together. As a band, as a creative unit. Not just the fact that we live in the same city, not just outlines of finished products to (re)create, not fully formed ideas to actualize. But potential in its purest form. Then, when the pandemic hit, I was in Amsterdam. Rehearsing with more than 2 people was out of the question, and everyone is always too busy in Amsterdam anyway. Nobody has time to get together for vague promises. So I started an overdub project, like every musician in the world. But to me it was actually creatively very liberating. I found a way to merge my different interests together, the Cagian, semi-independent layering I’ve always been interested in found its way into the dubs. I would ask people to make overdubs just by looking at a rough score, and only perhaps by listening to what was played before. Of course I was clear about what I thought was needed from each particular musician. What kind of playing would work in this context. And it always worked. I mostly just layered it on top, and adjusted the volume a bit from phrase to phrase. Here and there cutting things out. (This last bit of text refers to a set of pieces soon to be released on the label: Editions Verde.)

https://editionsverde.bandcamp.com/

I am interested in playing music with a group of dedicated people willing to spend some time working together to create a language which can be used to communicate intentions and positions to each other in flexible environments and malleable structures.

I am interested in playing music as a sort of code, to communicate with fellow players as well as the audience. Structural and melodic messages that can be accompanied by words, by certain names, sometimes spelling out these messages, sometimes simply adding sonic or metaphorical layers on top of the sonic structures.

I am interested, as a white European cis male to make something clear about my position on the political spectrum. I am saying: I do not agree with fake fascist agitators, and I stand up against racism. I still believe in the social-democracy I grew up in, and I believe in creating a fair and just society. I am willing to give up power, money, and fame for this. And I do not expect to be taken seriously by anyone, not just yet. Maybe one day, and maybe along the way I will inspire some other (white) people and artists to stop being silent about these issues, these issues that need to be addressed in art as well as in life. And perhaps a mixture of the two is what I am trying to conjure up with this project. A way to project a political opinion, a social instruction, without taking away the mystery, wonder, and joy of creativity and art.

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“I have an ambivalent relationship to the term ‘allies’ because when it comes to challenging racism, I think white people should know that they have as much of a stake in purging the society of racism as people who are the immediate targets.”

Angela Davis

A Conversation Between Michelle Alexander & Angela Davis (10/20/17)

Melodic codes

Harmonic messaging, structural roadmaps, names turned into melodies.

Melodies embedded in a flexible, sonic, environment.

At some point I started using a little self-made system that turns the letters of the alphabet into pitch classes. Then I started using it on people’s names. The people that were going to play the pieces. So the pieces were personalized, in a very direct way. They were meant to be played by certain people whose names made up the pitch material. (The last piece I made with this system is called: The names have been changed to protect the innocent.) Then I started to write dedications to people, people that were not necessarily going to play these pieces, using their names to create melodic and harmonic material and naming the pieces using their initials and full names. Early examples of these are AYD (Angela Yvonne Davis), JK (Joseph Kudirka), MA (Michelle Alexander), and QT (Quentin Tolimieri) as well as musicians who influenced me a lot at a younger age like AB (Anthony Braxton), and more recent discoveries like GEL (George E. Lewis) whose book ‘A Power Stronger Than Itself ’ was a major influence on the resurgence of my interest in Afro-centric American experimental music.

A renewed interest in Afro-centric American Experimental Music.

I have developed an interest in 1960’s Jazz harmony as a means to fill in the blanks. Impressionistic harmonic structures rather than serial pointillism. More fitting as a communication of structural whereabouts between musicians. Not excluding pointillism and the atonal but at the same time filling in the gaps between notes by means of scales. Pathways towards recognition and harmonic color consistency between players.

The harmonies and strategies of the mid 60’s Miles Davis quintet was a particular stream of music I analyzed and utilized to create a number of frameworks The Names could operate in.

And not only this kind of harmony, but also the colors of Debussy, the scales of Xenakis, The sudden up and down runs of Lachenmann, the weirdness of Ablinger and Barlow...

Jazz music was a practice of self expression and self determination. I’d like to extend that to a current practice of communication within understood and agreed upon structures by a diverse group of individuals. Both musical and social, giving an example towards the political...

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All music reflects the political lines and embodies the ideas of definite social classes. In composing music the political aspect is of paramount importance. In performance and criticism of music the political aspect is of paramount importance. Every attempt to produce music that is politically progressive shows up more glaringly the necessity for the musicians to integrate with the [people] and support their struggles practically.

(from the introduction to Stockhausen Serves Imperialism)

Feels

I was getting the feeling I needed to fill a large gap in my knowledge of music theory. Something I never had a use for before. Dealing with melodies and modal harmonies...

I went from seconds, sevenths and ninths to a more fourth and fifth based harmony. Logically the next step would be sixths and thirds. And indeed here we are, seconds and thirds form scales. Scales create modes, modes create moods and colors. Seeing harmony not as function but as color. Colors that can shift anywhere, anytime…

I find it interesting to combine Wandelweiser style playing and Ablinger/Cage/Oliveros style concepts with simple major, minor, and altered scales. The results are still abstract and flexible enough to be interesting for the listener, no obvious tonal center, but for the players it becomes much more malleable; controlling the colors as they make decisions on where to go next, and in which octave… (A good example of this is the piece: Song for Angela Davis. Versions of which will be released soon on Editions Verde and KN’s bandcamp)

I like to think of the melodies and the harmony in this project not as a definite structural totality, but as a means for a player to communicate where they are inside of the flexible structure.

Other players can then join them there. Or stay where they are, even if it is a different part of the structure. It is not against the rules to play 2 harmonies on top of each other. It’s all a matter of arranging things, agreeing on a set of circumstances. As such there are no definite rules.

So the idea of variation doesn’t just apply to the melodic structure, but to the structure of the whole idea of the piece. It can fall apart, and be put back together again in a different way. Players can play from different starting points, get stuck at different points, and join each other wherever seems appropriate. There is no fixed structure that is more right than any other structure that is made up on the spot. As long as it can, at certain points, be communicated where one is, it is all good. Even when the message is not always received.

Miles Davis did something like this. On Live Evil he included the Hermeto Pascual pieces. Slow, drawn out melodies, gorgeous harmonies, colors, colors, colors, warped percussion, semi-similar melodies that are hard to tell apart. Are Selim and Nem Um Talvez actually the same piece? Need to revisit them again, and again, impossible to tell from here.

https://youtu.be/TWs7cY-fEn0

In The Names, the repetition of the melody makes it a geo-musical marker for both the musicians and the listeners. Being familiar with the territory, it is easy to keep track of these markers here and there. Even if they don’t make the kind of sense they do in linear music. We recognize where the other is, maybe we’ll go there too. Going slower and slower it starts to make more and more sense… Maybe the roads don’t connect the same way anymore. But that’s ok. As long as we get there in the end, and towards the end.

Improvising with a melodic guide seems like a more fair way of beating the odds. Four note pitch sets are not as strong as a melody in a harmonic context. Though the clarity of harmonically colored melody notes is intoxicating, overwhelming, too much, and perhaps dangerous stuff. Better be sure to dilute it enough with post-musical strategies; with the structural thinking of Anthony Braxton, or the strategies of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Referring to the liberation of the Cagian layers, different things going on, not necessarily in a one-on-one connection with each other, maybe just a side-ear. Make your decisions based on the structure that is given, not on what the other players are doing at the time. But the material is all matched, it is a given that things will be OK, if your definition of OK, for music, is broad enough to make that happen. This is where the whole thing about post-music comes in. To be OK with an outcome that might not sound like music to some people. Or even like bad music to some people. That’s the tricky thing about moving into areas like melody, where some people think they know how it is supposed to go, how it is supposed to sound. Just listen to the ‘Music for (number)’ series from John Cage, to see how beauty can appear in unknown connections with semi-known material. (Particularly an obscure recording of Music for Three for violin, cello, and piano. Or the recording of Music for Four by the Arditti Quartet. You can hear the same material floating around in there in both renditions.)

- KN

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Paul Berliner's encyclopedic study of the creative process among jazz musicians discusses the use of harmonic sequences or "progressions" as a basis for improvisation. The author asserts that improvisers liken a harmonic sequence or "progression" to "a road map for charting the precise melodic course of a rendition" (Berliner 1994, 71) - remarkably similar to Cage's already cited notion of a performer's function with regard to indeterminate scores as "filling in color where outlines are given." Thus, a strong case could be made for the contention that, just as chance operations can constitute one method for realizing performer indeterminacy, performer indeterminacy may be one method of realizing an improvisation.

George Lewis, Improvised Music After 1950 p. 16

The rehearsal recordings (mastered by Taku Unami)

Along with the track included in this issue of Lateral Addition: ‘AYD (Angela Yvonne Davis)’, the rest of the rehearsal recordings fit for human consumption (3 versions of ‘QT’ and ‘Song for A....’) will be available on Koen Nutters’s bandcamp page.

https://koennutters.bandcamp.com/releases

AYD (Angela Yvonne Davis)

A melody, repeated, in octavated unison, going slower and slower, until it becomes a texture.

A short passage of just plucked bass and guitar, continuing the melody. Then, after a significantly slower rendition of the unison melody, it becomes a swamp, a texture, so slow it’s almost static. But the players can still hear the next notes coming. The melody still works as a roadmap. As a way for players to signal where they are. Or to deviate and create harmony. Everybody at their own pace. Nothing forced. Having heard the melody a few times now the audience is also part of the listening process, of the search for the next thing to play. The slowing down is also a process that helps the group make collective decisions. To take a second to think about a place the piece can go, which we’ve sort of agreed on. Instead of soloistic / solipsistic action, we see a group effort to change the material from one thing to another: a process.

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OC: Normally I begin by composing something that I can have them analyze, I play it with them, then I give them the score. And at the next rehearsal I ask them to show me what they've found and we can go on from there. I do this with my musicians and with my students.

Jacques Derrida interviews Ornette Coleman, 1997

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If working-class people are not in a position of awareness to accept any music in the service of socialism except the inevitable patronage offered by composers like the later Cardew, working in a deliberately simplified and banal idiom, then this is the fault of the processes of exploitation and stultification dealt out by the ruling classes to serve their interest. It is not good enough to assume that people who are expected to make rational and informed political decisions are at the same time incapable of being rational and informed about the culture of their projected society. It is unfortunate that most people are not in a position to come into contact, let alone sympathize, with radical musical ideas.

Richard Barrett - Cornelius Cardew (CCR p. 352)

The Names are: (in alphabetical order, August 2021)

Sara Campos - voice

Seamus Cater - harmonica

Heather Frasch - flute*

Marielle Groven - violin, piano, melodica

Morten Joh - Just Intonation vibraphone

Carina Khorkhordina - trumpet*

Jeroen Kimman - guitar

Koen Nutters - upright bass*

Han-earl Park - guitar*

Gert-Jan Prins - percussion

Germaine Sijstermans - clarinets

Aimée Theriot-Ramos - voice, guitar, cello

Quentin Tolimieri - melodica*

* playing on this version of AYD (Angela Yvonne Davis)

Answer now, the shipping forecast is you, by the Met Office, on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and WA15, on Thursday the 14th of May.

Good morning for girls in Viking.

Since 2014, I have been engaging in a new set of practices that I describe as
site-responsive sonic art. This involves developing technologically-mediated sonic
responses to site through human, material, and environmental considerations.*

Forth Fisher to foggie Fitzroy.

‘Sounding Out Spaces’ looks to theoretical movements within the arts to disrupt
the notion of audience-as-passive-observer or consumer.*

Soul Shannon, Farrell, and fairies turn off the upstairs;
1800 play bingo, just west of Fitzroy. 1010.

Common to the collection of practices that has been developed is the
theme that sound is produced in response to certain perceived or
measured attributes of a particular site. These features may be
acoustic, environmental, historic, and, perhaps, even imagined.†

997 by 1800, Wednesday. Pharaohs. 1022 by same time,
Ferro 994, moving steadily. Stand dissipating, Fastnet.

‘Sounding Out Spaces’ explores how we can use digital means to participate
directly in our environment, leading to novel and inclusive experiences. These
ideas are developed through iterative practice. The series began in 2014 with a
focus on guerrilla performance using portable analogue technologies, and has
evolved to involve, most recently, large-scale public installations.†

6 showers at fast, good dogger.

The temporal and ephemeral nature of such works, formed out of interactions
between participants in a particular scenario, resonates with Small’s idea of
music as something that happens through the negotiations of people with and
within a space. A site-responsive sound art practice both acknowledges and
allows for investigation of these dynamic relationships.‡

Steering southwesterly, 5 Morris Autos;
5 mainly fair, moderate, or good.

In ‘Lucky Dip’ (2015), audience members were offered multiple modes of
participation within the sound-environment field. Taking place during a
busy arts festival that was hosting several site-specific multimedia works,
the piece consisted of live electronic music that could be experienced both
underwater in a large swimming pool, and above the water through
loudspeakers. A total of nine performances took place over the course of
the three-day festival in Phoenix, Arizona.‡

Fitzroy's 56 North–rain in northwest–moderate, or good;
Fitzroy soul 620, perhaps to be a girl.

Sound is always situated socially, culturally, and perceived within a particular space.†

Occasional rain: good, becoming moderate, or poor:
cheap bastard Irish Sea.

Self-built hydrophones were positioned in the pool so that the movement
of participants could be made audible and be further transformed using
digital signal processing. This layering of possible experiences set up
various mutually affecting relationships within the environment and
provided different points of access to the piece.‡

Occasionally Gail–a tin salmon–good, occasionally poor.

A live electronic performance practice demands that the performer be able to
respond to the specificities of a given situation. But rather than attempt to control
the particulars of a performance environment, I suggest that it is fruitful to
embrace the improvisational nature of such work.‡

Gail 80: northeasterly 5; showers–at first good–is pharaoh’s.

‘Sounding Out Spaces’ contributes to cybernetics-driven arts practice through its
modular and portable approach to the development and organisation of hardware
and software components within a network.*

Rising quickly, wake! Northwest 5: intermittent fly drain.

In closed-loop homeostatic systems, changes in state are determined by
variances in the environment. Autopoietic systems, being initially concerned with
the cellular level, but later expanded to deal with the entire nervous system,
determine their activity on internal, rather than external (environmental) factors.
Changes in the external world cause perturbations, yet the organism always acts
upon its own internally-determined rules.*

Situation low-pressure–scented close to Shetland–
will drift East towards Norway, slowly losing its identity.

Working with autopoietic systems makes explicit the role of
environment—or medium—in which the work is undertaken.*

Occasionally gay, late at first, northeast 45th: Berwick-upon-Tweed to Whitby.

These musical systems are necessarily constructed by means of
culturally informed choices of materials, hardware, and importantly
the embodied actions of the artists and other participants involved.*

Good find: Regis to Lands End, including the Isles of Scilly.

Working with adaptive dynamical systems, the goal is to create audible
ecosystems that unfold over time with coherent characteristics which are
determined by their internal structures.†

Terrible three becoming Easterly, then South Easterly later.

As autopoietic systems themselves, humans may be present in the
specific environment, but are not the prime cause of musical activity.*

45–occasionally six later–in far west.

In such cases, the audience is not directed to experience the work
in a particular way, but is invited to explore their own trajectory
through a variety of access points.†

Fur: good.

Some participants chose to lie in the pool and let their ears move in and out of
the water; others preferred to listen purely through air, but were able to hear the
movement of those in the water.‡

Easterly 3 or 4. Southeastern E45, occasionally six-letter in West.

The various implementations of second-order cybernetic ideas lead to new
musical aesthetic experiences, while simultaneously offering alternative modes of
understanding musical activity—as embodied rather than necessarily formalistic.*

St David's Head–including the Bristol Channel–won’t be coming.

The project generates responsive sonic environments that have the potential to
unfold over time in non-random, yet unpredictable and compelling ways.*

1023 Cineworld.

Here, the multisensory experiential modes are not enforced, but are
optional, subtle and dynamic. This exemplifies the link between audience
participation and site-responsiveness: the piece could be performed in
other similar sites, but this type of performance ecosystem affords
participation that gives agency to the listener (through multiple modes of
listening chosen by participants, ability to affect the sound and so on).‡

Rising is the weather forecast for the inshore waters of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, valid for the following 24-hours.

- LSH

* Hayes, L. 2019. Investigating Autopoiesis in Site-Responsive Sonic Art. Interference Journal, 7.

† Hayes, L. and Stein, J. 2018. Desert and Sonic Ecosystems: Incorporating Environmental Factors within Site-Responsive Sonic Art. Applied Sciences, 8(1), 111.

‡ Hayes, L. 2017. From Site-Specific to Site-Responsive: Sound Art Performances as Participatory Milieux. Organised Sound, 22(1). 82-92. Cambridge University Press.

The Shipping Forecast was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4, produced by the Met Office on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Tuesday the 12th of May, Wednesday the 13th of May, and Thursday the 14th of May, 2015. Transcribed by dictation.io.

"Untitled discrete arbitrary input functions" is dedicated to my two nieces and my memories of their early-developmental oligodynamic and repetitive cluster-thudding diatony on my father's piano. Unsure if they were intending to annoy my father or merely amuse themselves—or both—the rhythmic qualities of their piano playing as obediently, reflexively gravitational—as if the keyboard were magnetically attracting the undisciplined, quasi-hostile actions of temporarily blithesome children—came to mind when listening back to early drafts of this piece. Upon simul-crashing the piano—in the sense of 'crashing the party' of piano music, a 'crash-course' in piano technique mutated after Ustvolskaya, and literally physically crashing down upon the keyboard—in their mostly harmonically diatonic yet rhythmically microtonal manner they perhaps failed as musicians, but succeeded as composers of a transient form that could not develop beyond its punishing reiteration. I have some sort of memory of trying to stupidly suggest they impute more accidentals into the diatonically-saturated crashings redundantly being spread across registers of the tetrachordal hellscape. But why? To appease my facile 'learned' intuitions of global structural coherence (between, say, rhythm and pitch-class structure)? Probably, given that I'm a dumb bitch with no relationship to children. At the time of this writing, I haven't had any communication with my nieces in years. Why's that, Kieran? Do they even exist? What is this little narrative about your so-called "nieces" plonking down on the keys—some sort of pitifully vain 'domestic anecdote' in-group signaling? Excuse me, sorry, that was my cousin Kaden chiming in to denigrate Me and My Work again.

Q: What is this piece about?

A: Generally, it's about divergent periodic sequences of repeating sets of time-point classes distributed across similarly divergent registral spans. Such divergence is intended to define a global polyphonic texture that maintains structural independence between sequences while simultaneously defining contrast and similarity among them.

Q: That's so abstract, I'm considering petitioning for your cancellation.

A: Fair enough. As one might be able to observe, many of the sequences projected by each 'hand' of the keyboard are repeating sequences. These repeat in order to determine temporal and overall textural definition and distance between adjacent sequences. Thus, while the work is totally polyphonic, each sequence is defined as a texture parametrically non-intersecting—whether that parameter be register, pitch-class structure, or tempo—not only in relation to its antecedent but also the sequence to which it is polyphonically 'simultaneous'. Dissonances are established both through displacement of synchronous downbeats between voices and the structural distance between adjacent sequences within each voice. This is to elide any salient metrical boundaries that might supervene and thus 'condition' how such concurrent sequences are structurally grouped.

Q: How was this piece composed?

A: Quite arbitrarily, as indicated by the title. Each 'hand' of the harpsichord was composed independently. And by composed, I mean improvised on the guitar and converted in real-time to MIDI data. Once one track was performed, another would be performed in the same manner and superimposed. Then each track was significantly edited, primarily to elide unintended artifacts resultant of the voltage-to-MIDI conversion process. Finally, each track i.e. 'hand' was tuned a quarter-tone apart from each other.

FURTHER READING

Johnson, W. M. (1984). Time-Point Sets and Meter. Perspectives of New Music, 23(1), 278-293.

Polansky, L. (1996). Morphological metrics. Journal of New Music Research, 25(4), 289-368.

Tenney, J., & Polansky, L. (1980). Temporal gestalt perception in music. Journal of Music Theory, 24(2), 205-241.

Thomas, M. (2000). Nancarrow's "Temporal Dissonance": Issues of Tempo Proportions, Metric Synchrony, and Rhythmic Strategies. Intégral, 137-180.

Song & Transcription with References

7:47

To decide what to write is a problem of a different order

Part 1: SORT IT ALL OUT AND END UP WITH A SICK OBJECTIVITY

1. Here’s another tableau of intimacy that won’t respond to questions. (LEPSELTER 2004)
2. I found myself particularly moved by this video clip; it was silent (likely by some encoding error) but I think that the silence moved me further. (SHESHADRI 2020)
3. Empathy is rough. (UNATTRIBUTABLE 2008)
4. Remember When is the lowest form of conversation. (SOPRANO 2006)
5. I feel I can give you everything without giving myself away. (NELSON 2015)
6. As we became less sure what came from one, what came from the other, or even from someone else, we would become clearer about “What is it to write?”. (DELEUZE & PARNET 1980)
7. I had hoped that everyone there would be new, that there would be no one I had ever met before. That way, I could put on a new set of airs; I could say I was something that I was not, and no one would ever know the difference. (KINCAID 1983)
8. Had she been a direct inspiration for his work? Had he been a tyrant? An uncompromising lover? Was there going to be another episode in their dark drama, or was this the end? (DE JONG 1977)
9. A tough, ambiguous depiction of traditionally female imagery. (CRIMP 1972)
10. The freedom to be happy restricts human freedom if you are not free to be happy. (AHMED 2010)

Part 2: ARE YOU RELENTLESS OR UNRELENTING?

1. A paranoiac treasure hunt, incriminatory, clues planted everywhere around the seasick room. (KRAUS 251)
2. Bars had a hyper-plain intimacy of a sixties basement rec room. (BERLANT & STEWART 2019)
3. Wallabies may be breeding in the wild in Britain. Artificial light may be driving mosquitos from day-biting to night-biting. Colorado spruce forests killed by beetles become mildly cooler, and Guam’s coconut rhinoceros beetles have started burrowing into cycad trees. (FINDINGS 2020)
4. We were warned about spiders, and the occasional famine. We drove downtown to see our neighbors. None of them were home, we nestled in yards the municipality had created. (ASHBERY 2004)
5. Dread fears the event, too, because it’s only going to be confirming of the time one suffers as the historical present. Dread looks forward to rest from even the possibility of the event. (BERLANT 2011)
6. During the trial, all the city all the city’s penny papers fabricated information and embellished their stories in a tawdry effort to keep the public enthralled. (GONZALEZ & TORRES 2011)
7. The historical society is a lackey of the real estate agents. (KING 1971)
8. The society immediately adjacent to where they now live -- the police and the administration -- still see them as thieves, robbers, criminals. And definitely use them in criminal activities. (MAHASWETA 1971)
9. I, the sovereign, who am outside the law, declare that there is no outside the law. (AGAMBEN 1997)
10. Unrelenting: not softening or yielding in determination; relentless showing or promising no abatement of severity, intensity, strength, or pace. (MERRIAM-WEBSTER 2020)

Part 3: CRUEL TAXONOMIES

1. People are different from each other. Unfortunately, the dynamic of becoming a spokesperson almost always threatens to bury this fact. You may keep saying that you only speak for yourself, but your very presence in the public sphere begins to congeal different into a single figure, and pressure begins to bear down hard upon it. (NELSON 2015).
2. It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol, or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it. (BARTHELME 1984)
3. fuck Annie; fuck the waif from Les Mis; fuck the poor, innocent kid on the Net; fuck Laws both with capital ls and with small; fuck the whole network of Symbolic relations and the future that serves as its prop. (EDELMAN 2004)
4. To be honest within the limits permitted by the profession, I wondered whether it would not be necessary to show the personality of my subject in another light. (CORTAZAR 1967)
5. What are its distinguishing features? What did I discover? What did I find curious? (GREEN 2014)
6. You’re suggesting (FEATURE OF GOOGLE DOCUMENTS 2020)
7. Although documents are frequently scripted with posterity in mind, history in one sense is an afterthought, only incidentally related to the sources that are fetishized as so fundamental to the craft of history itself. (DIRKS 2002)
8. But there are times when the narrator forgets themselves, as Beckett often does, and finds something too interesting or too grotesquely funny to be bothered about questioning its role in the narrative, its truth or its fictiveness. (TOIBIN 2011)
9. The day’s lesson drones on, but the camera is more interested in what the pupils see: a feather they keep. (SEALE 2020)
10. The lesson here, obvious but now, and then overlooked, is just to corroborate one’s data, in particular those acquired casually, such as through hearsay or off the backs of record albums. (BARTHELME 1984)

- AS

Like many musicians, I have been particularly interested in the music recording medium and its relationship to live performance. In its history, the format shifted from a document of an actual event (ie. a ‘record’) into an idealized construction.

Through the usage of various reverbs and spatialization, producers construct an artificial sound stage. Like the films of Georges Méliès, the medium places the listener in an idealized position, front and center before the theatrical stage, without the interference of other audience members, environmental sounds, or any hint of the quotidian function of music. Even in the ‘live recording’ (now a necessary distinction between the fictional ‘record’), a fader on the mixing console can reveal the sonic evidence of an audience before quickly diminishing it.

While reverb frequently invokes architecture such as rooms, halls, chambers, cathedrals, etc. (convolution reverb allows for the acoustic modeling of specific real spaces), the presentation still duplicates the modernist orthodoxy of the ‘white cube’: hypothetically without historical or geographical context. In “Room, Chamber, Hall”, reverb is not simply considered as a neutral, physical phenomenon utilized to place sounds on the ‘stage’. What is the significance of augmenting a music performance with the architectural reverberation of a cathedral? Does this space mean something different than a small room?

Accepting the myriad of functions of music outside of an idealized, empty concert hall, “Room, Chamber, Hall” presents its locales with the presence of bodies attending to their physical needs and desires such as eating, dancing, sex, etc..

- WS

PRESENTISM

Within the philosophies of time, three oppositional schools compete: Eternalism describes the phenomenon of time like a strip of film - the past and the future do exist, are real, but the present is merely a human concept. The growing block theory, maybe the most intuitive of the three, states that the present continually creates the past, but the future is unwritten. Presentism on the other hand argues that the only thing irrefutable is the present and that the past and the future are both unreal. By applying these three concepts to music, we may end up with a number of strategies to rethink what we consider as given.

I would like to propose that there has been has been a slow shift in how music was perceived. Improvised music, prior to notation, can be considered as presentistic, manifesting itself only in the present, it’s only traces of existence written in memory. With interpretation and notation, the perception shifts more to a growing block. The mind got a hold of the past, but the future still remained a very unstable realm - once the hand made a mistake with an instrument or the voice was interrupted to catch a breath. Obviously the advent of the recording introduced an absolute future and with it the concept of eternalism in music. Furthermore the introduction of the loop, applied in its most extreme way within techno, embeds the listener in a coherent body of past and future, even with a view of the timeline - first on the record, later on the waveform. A car, racing on the Autobahn, free to move in both directions. Of course, one could argue that the state of ecstasy in which techno is consumed compresses time into a perfect present, the psychological present, which is defined as 2-3 seconds with the equivalent of 1 bar by 120 bpm…

But staying for the moment with the first thought, we can ask the questions: is the loop the defining property of techno? What happens if we remove the certainty of the next kick, eroding the temporal and structural integrity of the genre? Presentism is a project based on one temporal randomised pulse, denying our ability to foresee the next kick and obscuring the possibility to form loops. Yet it upholds timbres and instrument references common to the genre. The aleatoric function acts like an agent of presentism in an eternalist domain. Like improvisation, it has the ability to remove a stable future and at the same time blur the memory by forming insignificant patterns. Intensification usually benefits from a balance between control and the prospect of collapse. The temporal shuffle of techno is the attempted surrender of control of the past and future to the present.

- JAT

collaborative record forthcoming Spring 2021 on Diagonal

In the moment of disaster, the old order no longer exists and people improvise rescues, shelters, and communities. Thereafter, a struggle takes place over whether the old order with all its shortcomings and injustices will be reimposed or a new one, perhaps more oppressive or perhaps more just and free, like a disaster utopia, will arise.

- Rebecca Solnit from A Paradise Built in Hell

2020 is a tectonic shift, a rapidly changing reality of intertwined symbiotic cause and effect events. The precarity of life, health and care, ignored for so long by those wielding political power, are catalyzed front and center by the pandemic. As the fascist U.S government rants about antifascists and calls to sacrifice whole communities to “the economy” -- the distinction between those wearing masks and those who refuse echo within all areas of existence.

A phone call and I am outside. Handing over a paper bag with shields to Tom who is wearing a respirator. Tom and I had never met until that very moment. He is one of over 30 people who came together to make and deliver protective face shields to essential workers.

For two months the soundtrack for many of us was the overlapping howling of sirens on the streets. Each siren -- a life, tied to multiple lives trying to save it.

The sound piece presented here is a full cycle of 3D printers printing frames for protective shields. Four 3D printers printed shield frames for two months 24/7 to meet the immediate need for personal protective equipment in New York; and as time progressed, other states and countries. The continuous chorus of 3D printing frames for protective shields became a song I would hum as I lived with the never ending cycle of rapid prototyping for a rapidly spreading emergency. It became a second layer for the ambulance soundtrack during my time in lockdown. The full cycle lasts just over 5 hours and results in frames for shields donated to essential workers during the height (at the time of writing this on June 14, 2020) of the Covid-19 pandemic.

An invisible transmission of vibrations from matter to matter is present in my installations. Permeating objects, vibrations are amplified and modulate the sound differently depending on the object's materiality; as does the virus --- transmitting through proximity, amplifying, growing and affecting each body differently, depending on their materiality, on their history and prior interaction with the world.

The intangible mutates… altering tangible objects, creating presence, effecting change with an invisible force.

- LD

There are always images

if there are not we imagine them

if they are not outside we seek for them inside

if they are outside we adapt them

There are always images

words are images

sounds become an image

the wind becomes an image

happiness is an image

We wait for them

Do we need them?

They come out on their own

The images that we already have

the ones we recognize

the ones we create from the ones we already have

those that accumulate

dogmatic, hegemonic

those which prevail in history

The world reveals itself through images

images create the world

the image of the world. A spherical blue and green shape floating on a black background

When and how did I get to know that image? Who showed it to me the first time I saw it?

How did the world think before having it?

Does the world exist without it?

and now that I have it, could I forget it?

The world without image

the world without what is thinkable

is the world of the possible

of the contingency

lots of worlds, other orders?

The image of the other

the unknown

the outside

The image of threat?

The images themselves

Perhaps I should leave the question aside

It seems like it's taking us to a familiar place

I invited 9 people to listen to the Hole - a hole more than 8 meters deep located in the courtyard of the industrial building where I live. In order to access it you have to go down a set of emergency stairs.

The hole is a dark cavity

a tunnel towards something that we cannot reach

we don't fit in it

but we want to fit.

The hole is a container

of our own answers

a container of desire

and a place to wait for that desire

We listen to the hole

if it answers our questions

The hole lacks something

that we always want to fill

Infer

Signify

Appropriate

We look at each other

in a black circle

of 10 cm diameter

The Hole, halfway between action and sound installation, is a recording which documents a collective listening session of a hole. The session was held in May 2020 and it tries to explore states of contingency where the self is continually negotiated with the other, experiencing how listening can be determined by expectations, longings, fears and everything that comes from the participants' (and listeners) reading code.

The hole is presented here as the favorable scenario in which one could put into practice a term I’ve dubbed contingent objects, which also gathers some of my latest work where I try to investigate the concept of Alterity from a socio-semiotic perspective. Contingent objects refers to situations which as a practice experiment with how The Self appears in collision with The Other, acting as a force that in advance tends to cancel the possibility of thinking that which does not pass through the conceptual network of representation. Thus, symbolic structures appear as mediating and modeling figures of things in context and above all as legitimizing mechanisms of hegemonic realities and ideologies.

These systems of representation encode the knowledge of the "external" and contemplate in a massive and general way the difference that limits them to a possible and dominant reality. The same image makes the Other become both interior and strange; it also reduces the limit experience of the exterior to contours, lights, shadows, lines, points. In this way, to seek meaning is to impose similarities so that the Other is configured as an instrument in which you seek so that the unknown can be thinkable. The Own provides a mentality, a genealogy, an atmosphere and most importantly allows it to be treated as a phenomenon with regular characteristics, limiting itself to a process of closure or domestication.

The Other, as a synonym for the unknown, the outside, the strange, the Uncertain or the invisible, threatens to destabilize ideological dogmas,whose only possible defense is to project and infer recognizable schemes consistent with the belief system that perceives it. However, the external is revealed as a non-place from which to reflect on the limits of the thinkable, disobedience and the renewal of the Self.

My research, which began in Mexico in 2015, has given rise in my last works to study the hole as a contingency stage, as a pre-sign space in which significance has not yet been imposed,in which to be able to experience the Outside, the non-representable freed from the image or the postulates or on the contrary to dive into the logic of meaning and recognition of the Self.

On the other hand, my work also explores from a more political perspective the excavation as a disturbance, cracking, an anomaly that reveals the impenetrability of institutional structures.

__________________

Siempre hay imágenes

si no hay, las imaginamos

si no están fuera, las buscamos dentro

si están fuera, las adaptamos

Siempre hay imágenes

las palabras son imágenes

los sonidos se vuelven imagen

el viento se vuelve imagen

la felicidad es una imagen

Las esperamos

¿Las necesitamos?

aparecen solas

Las imágenes que ya tenemos

las que reconocemos

las que creamos a partir de las que ya tenemos

las que se acumulan

dogmáticas, hegemónicas

las que prevalecen en la Historia

El mundo se nos revela a través de imágenes

Las imágenes crean el mundo

La imagen del mundo. Una forma esférica azul y verde flotando en un fondo negro.

¿Cuándo y cómo conocí esa imagen? ¿Quién me la enseñó por primera vez?

¿cómo pensaba el mundo antes de tenerla?

¿Existe ese mundo sin ella?

y ahora que la tengo ¿Podría olvidarla?

El mundo sin imagen

el mundo sin lo pensable

es el mundo de los posibles

de la contingencia

muchos mundos ¿Otros órdenes?

Lo imagen de lo Otro

lo desconocido

el afuera

¿La imagen de la amenaza?

Las propias imágenes

Tal vez debería dejar a un lado la pregunta

Parece que nos lleva hacia un lugar conocido

Invité a 9 personas a escuchar el Hoyo, un agujero de más de 8 metros de profundidad que se encuentra en el patio al que conduce las escaleras de emergencia traseras del edificio industrial en el que vivo.

El hoyo es una cavidad oscura

Un túnel hacia algo que no podemos alcanzar

No cabemos.

pero queremos caber.

El hoyo es un contenedor

de nuestras propias respuestas

un contenedor de deseos

un lugar donde esperarlos

Al hoyo lo escuchamos

si responde a nuestras preguntas

Algo le falta al hoyo

que siempre queremos rellenar

Inferir

Significar

Apropiar

Nos miramos

en un círculo negro

de 10 cm de diámetro

El Hoyo, a medio camino entre la acción y la instalación sonora, es una grabación que documenta una sesión de escucha colectiva de un agujero. La sesión se realizó en Mayo de 2020 y trata de explorar estados de contingencia en dónde lo propio es continuamente negociado con lo otro, experimentando cómo la escucha puede estar determinada por las expectativas, los anhelos, los miedos y todo aquello que proviene de los códigos de lectura de los participantes oyentes.

El hoyo, se presenta aquí como el escenario propicio para poner en práctica un término al que ha llamado "contingent objects" y que agrupa a algunos de mis últimos trabajos que tratan, desde una perspectiva socio-semiótica, investigar el concepto de Alteridad. "Contingent objects" hace referencia a situaciones que ponen en práctica cómo Lo propio aparece en la colisión con lo Otro actuando como una fuerza que tiende por anticipado a cancelar la posibilidad de pensar aquello que no pasa por la red conceptual de la representación. Así, aparecen las estructuras simbólicas como figuras mediadoras y modelizantes de las cosas en el contexto y sobre todo como mecanismos legitimadores de las

realidades e ideologías hegemónicas. Estos sistemas de representación codifican el conocimiento de lo “externo” y plantean de forma masiva y general la diferencia que los acota en una realidad posible y dominante. La misma imagen hace que lo Otro se vuelve a la vez interior y extraño, que la experiencia límite de lo de afuera quede reducida a unos contornos, luces, sombras, trazos, puntos. De esta manera, buscar el sentido es imponer semejanzas para que lo Otro se configure como un instrumento al que se acude para que aquello desconocido pueda ser pensable. Lo Propio proporciona una mentalidad, una genealogía, una atmósfera y, lo más importante, permite tratarlo como un fenómeno con unas características regulares, limitándose a un proceso de clausura o de domesticación.

Lo Otro, en tanto sinónimo de lo desconocido, del afuera, lo extraño, lo Incierto o lo invisible amenaza con desestabilizar los dogmas ideológicos y cuya única defensa posible es proyectar e infererir unos esquemas reconocibles coherentes con el sistema de creencias que lo percibe. Sin embargo, lo externo se revela como un no lugar desde donde reflexionar acerca de los límites de lo pensable, la desobediencia y la renovación de lo Propio.

Todo esta investigación, que empezó en México en el año 2015, a dado lugar en mis últimos trabajos a estudiar el hoyo como un estadio de contingencia, como un espacio del pre-signo en el que todavía no se ha impuesto la significación y en el cual poder vivir el Afuera, lo no representable liberado de la imagen o los postulados o por el contrario sumergirse en las lógicas de sentido y reconocimiento de lo Propio.

Por otro lado, mi trabajo también explora desde una perspectiva más política la excavación como perturbación, resquebrajamiento, anomalía que pone de manifiesto el hermetismo de las estructuras institucionales.

- VM

But sounds have been heard in the sky. They have been heard, and it is not possible to destroy the records of them. They have been heard. In their repetitions and regularities of series and intervals, we shall recognize perhaps interpretable language. Columns of clouds, different- colored by sunset, have vibrated to the artillery of other worlds like the strings of a cosmic harp, and I conceive of no buzzing of insects that can forever divert attention from such dramatic reverberations. Language has shone upon the dark parts of the moon: luminous exclamations that have fluttered in the lunar crater Copernicus; the eloquence of the starlike light in Aristarchus; hymns that have been chanted in lights and shades upon Linné; the wilder, luminous music in Plato-

- Charles Fort “New Lands”

Note:

For the past 7 years, under the project Lxv I have attempted to instigate occurrences of apophenia, the “unmotivated seeing of connections accompanied by a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness” (K. Conrad); by obscuring language and sounds and taking prerecorded samples and field recordings and processing them in a way to create time distortions and auditory contraptions. If we understand “modern media technology- ever since the invention of film and gramophones- as fundamentally arranged to undermine sensory perception” (F. Kittler) then, if successful, I was just cascading upon a preexisting illusion. I am interested in the idea of pattern recognition in music, and an often thin leash to which a listener may follow deviations from an expected path; presented by such elements as tempo, beat, genre and other given parameters. It is said that rhythm is the one indispensable element of all music. I have a horrible sense of rhythm, maybe its because my ears are crooked on my head, but where exactly is the rhythmic line? Plato's observation is that rhythm is simply “an order of movement”. The sounds presented in this mix represent my own tendencies to seek out, or to recognize patterns, maybe where they are not; in white noise, clicks, interference, in random sound occurrences. The sounds are mostly gathered from my own amateur experiments in the field with VLF and shortwave radios, from electronic interference in my faulty consumer electronics, from exchanging image file data as sound, and from static.

Order of sounds:

Number Station (FDR Park, Philadelphia, tuned by Kira, 4/19/20)

Radio Low Pass (year unknown)

Thunderstorm received by “Tesla” style open tuned crystal radio (Girard Ave. Philadelphia, 9/18/18)

Dual Oscillators Pure data (year unknown)

Realistic Synth (3/20)

Field Recording (Frazeysburg, Ohio, 5/17)

Shit Charger (Year Unknown)

VLF Radio (The Serpent Mound, Ohio, 5/17)

Roland SP808EX (Year Unknown)

VLF Pitched (Year Unknown)

Shortwave, Thunderstorm (4/20)

Shortwave, Bit reduced (3/20)

Unknown JPEG (Year unknown)

Radio Arrangement (3/20)

- DS

A Reader Response Exercise for 10 Participants & GRM Sample Pack

“With some conceptual tools, we will be able to find one or several desirable directions for music without having to obey to the dictatorship of technology. For example, the possibilites [sic] of AI in music is in the air nowadays. Lots of people are talking about it but it’s striking how little we think about what music actually is or should be. How can we have a valid opinion on the new possibility computer sciences offer to us as composers if we don’t think harder about the purpose of music itself? That’s one fascinating topic we are really willing to explore at GRM, in order to find the most relevant path in our R&D and software development, but also as composers and music lovers. Experimenting now is not trying every possible technological tool in order to build new sounds and new music. That was the childhood of experimental music, much needed and exciting, but still a childhood. Experimenting now is trying to find what music still can be in a world where almost everything is reduced to signals and information.” (www.ableton.com)

This recording is an excerpt from a long-duration complex polyrhythm, which consists of the beats of 100 different tempos. Each click on the track corresponds to a beat in one of the rhythmic layers. The number of beats for each voice in a complete cycle (at which point all the voices would sound exactly together) are listed below.

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a confused apparatus of sequencers with variable degrees of randomization functioning in some variation of tandem -::each alleatorically progressing through respective possible steps, a range of values sometimes plucked, chance driven from a pool of possibilities, some drunkenly staggered through miscellaneous orderings of predetermined values, sometimes running a prescripted line in proper order

& some degree of connectivity between each channel of data being output::- i.e. amplitude restrictions and allowances envelopes generated based on the data produced by one sequencer draped onto another but frequently swapped vice versa or onto some third or forth etc. element and back implying some correlative relation without definitive chain of causation

conceptual choices for samples or synthesizer sound profiles are vague the impetus for this recent body of work has been to provide some form of self guided abstracted meditation for the listener and dip into school of ‘ambience’ articulated in some infinitely non repetitious scene-passing-window of slowly moving nightcar allowing a tap into and out of with ease;;-

generally lately of the form of some thoroughly carved acapella vocalist processed into affected theatrics joined with some number of processed and relatively clean virtual synthesizers some found sounds some anachronistic digital instrument protocol equivalent to midi, soundfont, arguably more operable in max coming together hopefully cohesively into what intends to be a fragile mosaic of sound, tension between nearrhythms asymptotically dialoguing each other from as close a distance without convergence possible, some amorphous theoretical sculpture on the verge of collapse

- RW

From a conversation I had with Eric Laska over the phone, we discussed ideas and challenges of a work-in-progress I had been developing under my moniker Ex Continent titled Sistemes Dintre de Sistemes Dintre de Sistemes. The piece was originally presented at FASE Art Center in L’Hospitalet, Spain but later commissioned by Sonic Acts to be shown at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. During its development some doubts arose about how to properly re-introduce the piece and what my personal expectations would be from presenting it in public.

During February 2020 I took several trips to the UK and Japan where I had the chance to perform as Ex Continent and test some of these ideas. While traveling, my encounter with the other, the unknown influenced the creative process and my relationship with the piece.

The conversation, which starts centered on the nature of the piece eventually becomes self-reflective around the argument that the cognitive processing of everyday life information might possibly affect perception and creative decisions more than we would expect. During the conversation I became uncomfortable with the idea of obsession as a source element for creation. The discussion brought me back to the subject of human perception and my belief that neurological stimulation which happens in the subconscious can sneak into our decision making processes, reinforcing the idea of the artist as a channel for information rather than the source.

As both this project and conversation reflect a work-in-progress, further reflections on this subject are on-going.

The following people were crucial through this process and for that reason I would like to especially thank them:

Violeta Mayoral, Rafa Romero, my mom and brother Pep, Eric Laska, Patricio Rivera and FASE, Dali de Saint Paul, Miguel Prado, Kazumichi Komatsu, Hideki Umezawa, Kazunori Toganoki, Fuyumi Murata and Mumei, Marzia Matarese, the organization folks at Sonic Acts, Stedelijk Museum and all the many technicians and workers at the festival who helped me put the piece together.

Arnau Sala Saez, Barcelona February 2020.

Audio Recordings:

—Fushimi Inari Shrine Ritual (interrupted), Kyoto

—Bristol pre-Concert

—Ex Continent Live Bristol - Excerpt

—Tokyo Central ambiance

—Unknown Performance - Setsubun at Sensō-ji Temple

—Tokyo Central ambiance

—Taito Station, Asakusa

—Ex Continent Live Tokyo - Excerpt

—Pachinko in Asakusa, Tokyo

—Ambiance from Kazumichi Komatsu’s Live set, Tokyo

—Ex Continent Live Tokyo - Excerpt

—Tokyo Subway, Chuo Line

—Ex Continent Live Bristol - Excerpt

—Tokyo Subway, Chuo Line

—Tokyo Mall, Asakusa

—Ex Continent - Sound from installation at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

*Note: I used some of Rafa Romero’s source saxophone improvisations and heavily processed them for a lot of my live recordings used in these performances.

More info — https://arnausalasaez.com/

When creating this sound piece, I wanted to incorporate modalities that have helped me and fascinated me throughout the years.

Time is an illusion. Our Subconscious Minds cannot gauge what time it is or what reality we are living in. The Subconscious mind is operating on past patterns. All you need to do is install new patterns in your supercomputer (your mind) for a new reality.

Source material:

Recording of a Neuro-Linguistic Programming Timeline Therapy session

Excerpts read from Personality Profile Through Handwriting Analysis by D. John Antony, O.F.M.Cap.

Field recordings (handwriting – lead pencil on paper)

GSR device

Supercollider

If you can influence your brain to change before you experience

a desired future event, you will create the appropriate neural

circuits that will enable you to behave in alignment with your

intention before it becomes a reality in your life. Through your

own repeated mental rehearsal of a better way to think, act, or be,

you will “install” the neural hardware needed to physiologically

prepare you for the new event...

So can you believe in a future you cannot yet see or experience

with your senses but have thought about enough times in your

mind that your brain is actually changed to look like the experience

has already happened ahead of the physical event in your

external environment? If so, then your brain is no longer a record

of the past, but has become a map to the future. (Dispenza, 2012, p. 52)

Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself - How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One by Dr. Joe Dispenza

- EP 2/6/2020