[NetBehaviour] Ethernet Orchestra is on Isotopica, Resonance FM tonight

Sun Mar 29 00:31:08 CET 2020

Hey all - the perfect antidote to isolation tonight, Sunday, is listening to the sound arts program Isotopica on Resonance FM between 7-8pm. Program host, Simon Tyszko will be airing some tracks from the Ethernet Orchestra album Oceans between Sound - See broadcast brief below:

Is it really that time?

A mechanical kitchen timer prised from a discarded unit in a Bruxelles street provides an analogue rhythm around which we build today’s program.  Camus provides some words, we tune in to some intercultural networked improvised music from The Ethernet Orchestra, sample a new livestream sound work from Matthew Olden, and all as we gently muse on our world spun upside down on an unfamiliar axis.

7-8PM UTC+01:00 resonancefm.com <http://resonancefm.com/>

—
Roger Mills

http://www.eartrumpet.org
http://ethernetorchestra.net
http://telesound.net

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>   1. a literature project (Max Herman)
>   2. Re: a literature project (Alan Sondheim)
>   3. Re: How is everyone (Johannes Birringer)
>   4. holding (Alan Sondheim)
>   5. Re: How is everyone (tacira at riseup.net)
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> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:14:13 +0000
> From: Max Herman <maxnmherman at hotmail.com>
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> Subject: [NetBehaviour] a literature project
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> Hi all,
> 
> While processing the current year's events, I've been reminded of an old (and not very good) literature project I did long ago.
> 
> This in turn has led to some thoughts about a potential new project.  Maybe this is one way I process literature and experience, to ask what is going on now, then ask what from the past might be relevant, then ask what future events might be the same, different, desirable, possible, etc. in an ongoing cycle of comparison, review, and revision.
> 
> The hypothetical new project doesn't fit the standard definition of a literature project at first glance, but might have subtler relations to some aspects of past literature (like say the haiku, koan, riddle, or folk tale).
> 
> I don't know at all if I will "do" the project, or want to, or if it even can be done, or if it should be done; or, if it should be done, how, and by whom; or if it is even possible for there to be a "done" and a "how" and "by whom."  But the hypothetical literature project I'm thinking of could be named "what is genius 2020?"  Its full textual extent could be three questions: "What do you think about the concept of genius?  What do you think about the year 2020?  How do you think the concept of genius and the year 2020 are related?"
> 
> In my life I've found often that asking too many questions, being too questioning, can be a false path that leads me to misjudgments and bad consequences.  Sometimes being of a simple and non-questioning mind is very important for me to retain balance, perspective, and context.  Following group conventions, the ebb and flow of human sentiment in which we all move albeit in different places and ways, can also be beneficial in its own right.  I certainly don't know the answer to these dilemmas.
> 
> I suppose that being too "answering" can also be a source of terrible imbalance!
> 
> I wonder now if it would be better to ask just one question rather than three:  "how do you think the concept of genius and the year 2020 are connected?"  (This seems more concise, but I find the somewhat magical pattern of three more reassuring.)
> 
> Perhaps we are all asking and answering this question in our own way, if not in these exact terms, the best we can all the time anyway.  What is going on?  What does it mean?  How should I be?  Perhaps it is best left as a personal and internal question, a mystery in the ancient sense of something to contemplate calmly, quietly, and slowly, a question generally unspoken and unanswered but no less alive and well for being in that subtle form.
> 
> Very best regards,
> 
> Max
> 
> +++++
> 
> genius (n.)
> late 14c., "tutelary or moral spirit" who guides and governs an individual through life, from Latin genius "guardian deity or spirit which watches over each person from birth; spirit, incarnation; wit, talent;" also "prophetic skill; the male spirit of a gens," originally "generative power" (or "inborn nature"), from PIE *gen(e)-yo-, from root *gene- "give birth, beget," with derivatives referring to procreation and familial and tribal groups. Sense of "characteristic disposition" of a person is from 1580s. Meaning "person of natural intelligence or talent" and that of "exalted natural mental ability" are first recorded 1640s.
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> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:27:34 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
> To: Max Herman via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] a literature project
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> personally, I hate the word 'genius.' it blocks, it's doxa, it rides 
> poorly, it eliminates, it effaces, it touches too much on issues of class, 
> if not race, gender, who does the defining, mensa, iq text biases, etc. 
> 2020 or not. the same for every year. too loaded, perhaps too 
> unintelligent itself, when we're slowly adapting to the splendid variety 
> of lie, AI and NI in the cosmos?
> 
> best, Alan
> 
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2020, Max Herman via NetBehaviour wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> While processing the current year's events, I've been reminded of an old
>> (and not very good) literature project I did long ago.
>> 
>> This in turn has led to some thoughts about a potential new project. Maybe
>> this is one way I process literature and experience, to ask what is going on
>> now, then ask what from the past might be relevant, then ask what future
>> events might be the same, different, desirable, possible, etc. in an ongoing
>> cycle of comparison, review, and revision.
>> 
>> The hypothetical new project doesn't fit the standard definition of a
>> literature project at first glance, but might have subtler relations to some
>> aspects of past literature (like say the haiku, koan, riddle, or folk tale).
>> 
>> I don't know at all if I will "do" the project, or want to, or if it even
>> can be done, or if it should be done; or, if it should be done, how, and by
>> whom; or if it is even possible for there to be a "done" and a "how" and "by
>> whom." But the hypothetical literature project I'm thinking of could be
>> named "what is genius 2020?" Its full textual extent could be three
>> questions: "What do you think about the concept of genius? What do you think
>> about the year 2020? How do you think the concept of genius and the year
>> 2020 are related?"
>> 
>> In my life I've found often that asking too many questions, being too
>> questioning, can be a false path that leads me to misjudgments and bad
>> consequences. Sometimes being of a simple and non-questioning mind is very
>> important for me to retain balance, perspective, and context. Following
>> group conventions, the ebb and flow of human sentiment in which we all move
>> albeit in different places and ways, can also be beneficial in its own
>> right. I certainly don't know the answer to these dilemmas.
>> 
>> I suppose that being too "answering" can also be a source of terrible
>> imbalance!
>> 
>> I wonder now if it would be better to ask just one question rather than
>> three: "how do you think the concept of genius and the year 2020 are
>> connected?" (This seems more concise, but I find the somewhat magical
>> pattern of three more reassuring.)
>> 
>> Perhaps we are all asking and answering this question in our own way, if not
>> in these exact terms, the best we can all the time anyway. What is going on?
>> What does it mean? How should I be? Perhaps it is best left as a personal
>> and internal question, a mystery in the ancient sense of something to
>> contemplate calmly, quietly, and slowly, a question generally unspoken and
>> unanswered but no less alive and well for being in that subtle form.
>> 
>> Very best regards,
>> 
>> Max
>> 
>> +++++
>> 
>> genius (n.)
>> late 14c., "tutelary or moral spirit" who guides and governs an individual
>> through life, from Latin genius "guardian deity or spirit which watches over
>> each person from birth; spirit, incarnation; wit, talent;" also "prophetic
>> skill; the male spirit of a gens," originally "generative power" (or "inborn
>> nature"), from PIE *gen(e)-yo-, from root *gene- "give birth, beget," with
>> derivatives referring to procreation and familial and tribal groups. Sense
>> of "characteristic disposition" of a person is from 1580s. Meaning "person
>> of natural intelligence or talent" and that of "exalted natural mental
>> ability" are first recorded 1640s.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 19:11:22 +0000
> From: Johannes Birringer <Johannes.Birringer at brunel.ac.uk>
> To: "netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org"
> 	<netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone
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> 
> thanks all, for sharing thought and videos/images (Michael's garden, shardcore's song, Alan's birds), I almost think
> in times like these perhaps the less said the better?  but then I would have missed your comments on what you're working
> on or how communities in Brazil resist their governments, or how you circle your private garden. I really liked Danielle's post - thank you!
> 
>>> ..... Have formed an online communication with a small circle of old friends most of whom live alone. This is leading to immediate creative use of ZOOM, collaborative projects and sharing in new ways. This has become important. Am concerned that people are too screen based though and not taking advantage of this opportunity to experience themselves in quiet. No planes passing.>>
> 
> this moved me. 
> 
> I have nothing much to add, except wanting to share film I made of our last dance, "mourning for a dead moon,"  i realized it ought to be short to be palatable,
> & one ought to see the invisible cryptogamicCoat, in the first scene, but neither problem I was able to solve.
> 
> https://youtu.be/I66-b21y8oE
> 
> stay safe, warm regards
> Johannes Birringer
> dap-lab
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 22:20:51 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
> 	<netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
> Subject: [NetBehaviour] holding
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> 
> holding
> 
> http://www.alansondheim.org/P11.png
> 
> i don't remember the image. it's a lure, it beckons me, that the
> image itself, not the content, but its entrapment, its position in
> a strip of images occurring forever it seems; by 'image' i don't
> recall or mean what's evident elsewhere in a formal setting, in a
> setting which bespeaks 'image,' in other words an advertisement for
> what's to come, a token that could be anything. i'm sick of images,
> sick of text; text provides an immersive experience of course that
> pales for images; one might feel empathy for an immobilized subject
> for example, but on the side of the subject, time has stopped,
> nothing more occurs, there's nothing more to be said than the
> collocation of pixels or silver grains or etching strokes what have
> you. so there's that. and there's always hope that the image leads
> to the text, embraces the text, opens the text, for the viewer,
> which is almost never the case. i receive for example 'like' clicks
> on facebook with a text, perhaps this text, that's being presented,
> which may have a complexity requiring attention one way or another,
> but the 'like' comes almost immediately, signaling the text has
> been ignored, what remains is the image already fading, already
> forgotten by the viewer. you see, if you've come this far, that i'm
> exhausted, my writing is choppy, we drove yesterday for hours and
> hours, all the way to omaha from aurora colorado, then worked and
> talked so that i think we were going for 21 hours altogether, then
> insufficient sleeping, now writing as if sleep has its say that
> spreads slowly everywhere, the opposite of the image, the image
> losing to the sleep, to the content of the sleep which is already
> burrowing into this writing, and which has no content at all,
> language replaced by murmuring mumbling. i'm always jealous i can't
> get off the page <break from someone on the phone vis-a-vis issues
> related to the virus>
> 
> the phonecall was about our state rhode island closing its borders
> to new york state with troopers on the highways stopping vehicles
> and so forth which makes it difficult for us to return home and
> we're working on that with an odd sense of fear being trapped
> somewhere without facilities or ability to do anything at all so
> the break released the page in a sense as anxiety chemicals rise in
> me here in omaha and not know where to turn but wanting to help a
> friend who is coming temporarily to the state which the state finds
> problematic and i'm not sure what we're going to do but wondering
> if the image has taken you in or has taken you this far because
> it's most likely a prosaic image that doesn't add anything to the
> conversation which is at best one-sided and nothing more than a
> lure
> 
> a lure, allure
> 
> this is where what occurs on a critico-theoretical level exists,
> lives, exits; this below. which may no longer connect with, concern
> itself with, the image; it's as if - now you're here, i have you,
> here is what i want to say - now i've got you in the prisonhouse of
> language as well; the viral chains of language; the theoretical-
> critical journal of the plague year; the well of buried victims;
> the singing of ring around the rosie; the wall around the well; the
> road on the way to the well; the wall to keep things in; the wall
> to curtain things; to cauterize them; the wall of the image; the
> defensive wall of the image; the postern; the leakage; the lake;
> the postal wall; anything to keep you away; anything to confirm the
> image did its duty; does its duty; already gone; "if you've read
> this far" etc.; "if you haven't lost interest" and so forth; "if
> you want this text to continue" u.s.w. - can't help you - no
> replacement image - nothing like that - the name "Willoughby" comes
> to mind - nothing else - the frame - maybe like this -
> 
> |
> |___________________________________________________
> 
> probably not: this text: at the bottom of the frame: you know where
> that came from: don't you: dis:track:shun:
> 
> +++
> ____________________________________________________
> |
> |
> 
> 19c19
> which is almost never the case. i receive for example 'like' clicks
> ---
> which is almost never the case. i receive for example 'like' clicks
> 22c22
> but the 'like' comes almost immediately, signaling the text has
> ---
> but the 'like' comes almost immediately, signaling the text has
> 57c57
> critical journal of the plague year; the well of buried victims;
> ---
> critical journal of the plague year; the well of buried victims;
> 
> +++++
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 03:14:29 -0700
> From: tacira at riseup.net
> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
> 	<netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] How is everyone
> Message-ID: <a098524ddb418b093cfa25c77cb7f101 at riseup.net>
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> 
> hi johanes
> 
> the fight in brazil is now for health AND information
> 
> Support public health workers and videomakers in the front line of
> Covid-19 in Brazil. 
> 
> https://apoie.bombozila.com/projetos/nafiladosus
> 
> Trailer https://vimeo.com/401500909
> 
> 
> Em 2020-03-27 19:11, Johannes Birringer escreveu:
>> thanks all, for sharing thought and videos/images (Michael's garden,
>> shardcore's song, Alan's birds), I almost think
>> in times like these perhaps the less said the better?  but then I
>> would have missed your comments on what you're working
>> on or how communities in Brazil resist their governments, or how you
>> circle your private garden. I really liked Danielle's post - thank
>> you!
>> 
>>>> ..... Have formed an online communication with a small circle of old friends most of whom live alone. This is leading to immediate creative use of ZOOM, collaborative projects and sharing in new ways. This has become important. Am concerned that people are too screen based though and not taking advantage of this opportunity to experience themselves in quiet. No planes passing.>>
>> 
>> this moved me. 
>> 
>> I have nothing much to add, except wanting to share film I made of our
>> last dance, "mourning for a dead moon,"  i realized it ought to be
>> short to be palatable,
>> & one ought to see the invisible cryptogamicCoat, in the first scene,
>> but neither problem I was able to solve.
>> 
>> https://youtu.be/I66-b21y8oE
>> 
>> stay safe, warm regards
>> Johannes Birringer
>> dap-lab
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