User:Yoana Buzova/R&W/self-directed

Describe recent work Window Compositions

This project is about encoding and decoding, in other words, defining the transformation of symbols from one set of symbols to another one. It is about hearing music in the city lights. I take the evening streets as an input. The time when daylight fades, windows start lighting up. I record (photograph) the buildings along a taken street and use the lit windows on the different floors to create code for a music box punch card. The punch card is decoded by the box into a tune. The outcome is a rhythmic soundscape of the street. The sound is a reflection of a self-organized pattern of urban structures. It’s variation and complexity depends on scale and liveliness of the moment and the environment. My intention is to bring the sound back on the streets, as an installation, so the dynamics and liveliness of a transient moment could live by being brought back to its place of origin or move to another place (street, city, country) in a different form.

I choose the music box because I am fascinated by the idea of scaling down a piece of the city into a small, tangible object. Reducing and transforming the chaotic, dynamic, bustling urban noise into a minimal, analog melody. A mechanical, hand-cranked machine turns people’s unconscious collaboration into a personal, poetic moment.

Identify key themes

encoding - decoding, self-organised information/events, using existing content in different context, using combinatorial, generative techniques

Identify how texts you have already produced might be useful (descriptions of work, or annotations for instance)

not sure how useful it will be...

Marx and Engels, The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas

Gramsci, History of the Subaltern Classes

Notes and Speculations about Cultural Hegemony in contemporary society

Melvyn Bragg and guests Raymond Geuss, Esther Leslie and Jonathan Rée discuss the Frankfurt School- Notes

Identify contextualizing texts (art work or literature)

Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972), Form

Gregory Bateson, Substance and Difference (lecture)

Charlie Gere, Digital Culture

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Seth Kim-Cohen, In the Blink of an Ear

Avant-garde film

"Encoding, Decoding", by Stuart Hall

"A Communications Primer," by Charles & Ray Eames

Matt Pearson, Generative Art

Annotate contextualizing texts