[NetBehaviour] The faltering sky

Alan Sondheim sondheim at panix.com
Thu May 4 14:20:51 CEST 2023



I'd say the latter. When I put up music, I usually have video to accompany 
it, but it's minimal, an anchor point. If I use text in the video as well, 
that's a third register. Uneasy lines. I'd most likely have darkness with 
the music, or have different modes of listening/watching...

On Thu, 4 May 2023, Mark Hancock wrote:

> Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 10:22:26 +0100
> From: Mark Hancock <mark at memecortex.net>
> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
>     <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
> Cc: Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] The faltering sky
> 
> I think that's a sign that I come from the viewpoint of a visual creator,
> wanting to control the imagery that people see (perhaps)? Throwing purely
> audio into the world requires a leap of faith that listeners will get to
> where you want them to. Or alternatively, letting them take the
> experience where they want?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 May 2023 at 17:52, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour
> <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
> 
>
>       This raises a question, why visuals at all? Except in
>       programmatic musics
>       or song perhaps, at least for me the music will become it's own
>       (aural)
>       world or world in the making - in other words a world one might
>       inhabit,
>       for better (usually) or worse. The visual, even in live
>       performance,
>       brings up an other, another limitation - it's a directed glance;
>       online
>       the glance is confined (by a partial or full screen). We're used
>       to
>       integrating all of this automatically, but the work you put up
>       stands on
>       its own and opens vistas which are simultaneously borderless (no
>       vanishing
>       point for example, nothing, that Zen circle for example) and
>       replete...
>
>       - Alan
>
>       On Wed, 3 May 2023, Mark Hancock wrote:
>
>       > Date: Wed, 3 May 2023 17:26:26 +0100
>       > From: Mark Hancock <mark at memecortex.net>
>       > Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
>       >     <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
>       > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
>       >     <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>
>       > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] The faltering sky
>       >
>       > Thank you, Alan. 
>       > Some of the videos have been quite abstract but maybe there's
>       a time for
>       > letting the listener explore and create their own inner
>       visuals.
>       >
>       > M
>       >
>       > On Wed, 3 May 2023 at 15:32, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour
>       > <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>       >       Great soundtrack -  wonder how visual wd work since
>       they'd be
>       >       'bound' to location, while the soundtrack seems
>       beautifully
>       >       open, fills the space @ least here -
>       >
>       >
>       >
>       > On Wed, May 3, 2023 at 4:02?AM Mark Hancock via NetBehaviour
>       > <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>       >       Hi net(mis)behaviourists,
>       > If you follow me on Instagram (social media is the yoke of
>       > oppression keeping the proletariat in the dirt, but it's also
>       > great for connecting with artists, right?), you'll know that I
>       > occasionally post short generative videos that accompany
>       > soundscape/tracks that I've been creating . I've decided to
>       > start posting the full length tracks to my Soundcloud account
>       > again.
>       >
>       > The latest one, The faltering sky, doesn't have a video yet,
>       but
>       > the track is here to listen to, should that sort of thing
>       > appeal to you.
>       >
>       > https://soundcloud.com/keepartevil/the-faltering-skies
>       >
>       > On my account, it plays AGF's Letsmakeourmovies, straight
>       after,
>       > which seques well.
>       >
>       > https://soundcloud.com/agf-music/letsmakeourmovies
>       >
>       > Cheers,
>       >
>       > Mark
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