User:Tisa/special issue 10
Session #1 [17-9-2019]:
Thinking ahead: Possibilities of the project:
- different aspects: synthesizer itself, the cover - thus interface, connectivity to the other modules - interrelationality
- software, hardware and the usage -> in practice and in thought.
- connecting modules augments the possibilites - modularity = great affordance
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MY NOISE MACHINERY
In the meanwhile I went to Groningen and brought back all my diy sound machines, half of them are broken a bit. Bought a 2,5€ microphone with a mini jack in Action, but apparently it doesn't work. I will probably disassemble it, see what's inside, if anything at all. Maybe just a sheel, a sad shell without any sound in it, not even the waves.
Also: My other noise machines are not really compatible with the module, only the bug is (but it's very high pitched and I don't like it.) (i want to have some machine that would make granular sound-wall, white noise). The 4-legged machine only has two legs - potentiometers -> fix it.
The plan is to make my performances more real-time, more based on improvisation, echoing all the knowledge about it that I have configurated in the past year and longer - through my first-hand experiences with it (through theater, playing instruments, vocal improvisation, free-writing etc.)
To perform in the material reality of the temporal-spatial setting of this (annoying) performative time. write about it #todo
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Session #2 workshop with Olli Aarni
FIRST DAY [23-9-2019]
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/olliworkshop
My thoughts: The difficulties of describing sound. (Remember, the workshop w/Dré? -> getting meta) What are the parameters? VOCABULARY? How poetic can/could/should one be? Imagination when re-constructing a sound from language. Mind modulation.
Limitations, frameworks can be -> are beautiful. For example the 5 strings on the finish Kantele or the Etiopian Begena. How can the "vocabulary" expand, from simple words to complex sentences.
Exercise: Fictional designs, interfaces for the principle of string instruments. For example a harp in a tall staircase, strings being fixed on top and the bottom, played while ascending-descending. A giant that plays the bridge.
Buzzing against mosquitoes. Buzzing against young people.
Active listening - Pauline Oliveros
When listening - isolating sources of sound from one another. Specific - general sound. Being aware of the sound that we are producing? Hamburg trainstation - soundscape.
Negative-positive-neutral sound perception?
Snow playing on citre. or rain Drops of water in a cave. [ https://naturebliss.bandcamp.com/album/ochiruchirumichiru-kk034 beautifully randomised] Birds playing on guitars. Celeste Boursier-Mougenot
Randomness (lava lamp) generator.
Interfaces of language: spoken | symbolic | written
Where is the limit between language and music? Language and poetry?
What are the relevant questions here?
Pesniške figure -> research more.
Exercise: Describe a sound (from a 20-minute walk around the block), without referencing to its source.
"Shortly continuous, a swipe, a one time non-repeatable gesture, soft, mid + high spectrum, (a surprise under the feet), a memory of a complex unisono, in silence loudly perceived." -> krhkojemajoč, a leaf cracking under feet.
"Round and metalic, not intentional, broken in two repetitions, the second one prolonged, louder than the space around, when you flinch, loose control, a disruption." tonorijska zdrznitev, a spoon falling somewhere.
Listened to the beautiful Eliane Radigue: Feedback works (1969–1970): feedback with microphones, speakers and reel-to-reel tape machines Adnos III (1979–1980): arp2500 Occam Ocean II (2015): orchestra, oral instructions ->
// a whale on the edge almost crashing down in between skyscrapers, a swarm of wasps approaching from afar .. The extended moment of waiting, refusing to know the outcome that sometimes reveals we do not at all have control. Nauseous morning of stillness. States on the verge of admiration. Simplicities shifting between complex layers //
SECOND DAY [24-9-2019]
Overview of "some" sound terms.
I'm getting somehow annoyed, or shall I say stimulated by the nature of our debates. It's this silence that is painful for a full mind. The discrepancy between thinking and saying. I thought that in this environment people would be inspired and empowered to speak their mind, to invent thoughts and concepts as we go. (Is fear, self-image here the preventing factor?) Preconceived knowledge or ideas here as not as important as is the real-time process, an open collective workflow. Nobody has to apologize for the lack of their knowledge, come on. I guess I was mistaking and I'm going to be (again) in this ungrateful position of always having to say something but holding myself back in order not to override this (unproductive) group dynamic. I'm being cruel here. But this situation in itself is cruel to me.
Highlights:
Needing a reference to describe a sound - a question of approach and the logic of perception: do we want to speak about sound in a poetic or scientific way? In what way for what purpose? It is almost a question of metaphors (#todo add my "A plea for metaphors" text)
Exercise: 1) Listen to the sound & name the file with one word (attach it to the original name). 2) Listen to the sounds, try to find connections between them, link them together in folders (at least 3 categories), name the folders so that they describe their content. 3) Create a text file in a folder where you explain why they are similar/grouped together.
WORDS on the pad #todo construct a stable dictionary.
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I'm thinking on how to adapt or confront.
My field is not the Terminal, it is Command prompt.
All instructions are for mac OS.
Windows has not provided me with a nice view.
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In half-sleep watched this [19-9-2019]
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Dennis suggests [20-9-2019]:
- installing https://www.cygwin.com/
- Depending on the Windows version you could either try [[1]] > (> win 10).
-You could use the PZI raspberry pi prolly -or use a linux 'live image' on bootable USB stick to boot into linux without hurting windows.
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So, my decision [22-9-2019] seems to be to install Linux on a USB and run it.
So, what happens [23-9-2019] is that the Linux live (the non - stable one or how do you call this anyways?) makes the screen shiver, tilting it in randomized horizontal-vertical positions, surprisin, provoking a call of momentarity, a glimpse of a shock. It is said that this version of it does not remember, every installation would have to be made anew each time when running it. How is it like to not possess any memory? //So, can I empathize with a machine yet?//
When trying to upload my "ican" sound sample taken from this track the Arduino board and the Arduino nano ran on the linux do not communicate properly. After one burned board (by the accidentally distructive code from Dennis - she counts, gets too fast, disrupts the flow of information), then miraculously (another machine, another arduino) the sample gets uploaded. It sounds pretty jolly. Annoying after further tryouts at home.