Excavating Presence & Absence

  “The feeling of the eerie is very different from that of the weird. The simplest way to get to this difference is by thinking about the (highly metaphysically freighted) opposition — perhaps it is the most fundamental opposition of all — between presence and absence. As we have seen, the weird is constituted by a presence — the presence of that which does not belong. In some cases of the weird (those with which Lovecraft was obsessed) the weird is marked by an exorbitant presence, a teeming which exceeds our capacity to represent it. The eerie, by contrast, is constituted by a failure of absence or by a failure of presence. The sensation of the eerie occurs either when there is something present where there should be nothing, or is there is nothing present when there should be something.”  

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Goodbye to language through a scanner darkly.

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Nine Inch Nails- Over And Out (HD)

Time is running out I don’t know what I’m waiting for

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h e r m e s/Cyberki-lbody···#oblinof

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Alva Noto - Stalker (For Andrey Tarkovskiy)

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65daysofstaticsoletmeingestyouwiththeory:

'Decomposition Theory or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Demand the Future'

"Imagine that 65daysofstatic deconstructed themselves as dozens of tiny AIs. Decomposition Theory is a live collaboration between the humans and their code-based counterparts. It is 65daysofstatic becoming cyborg, demanding a future where we control the algorithms, and not the other way round."

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Oblinov Kohara

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Towards a Poetics of Artificial Superintelligence – after us – Medium

Symbolic language can help us grasp the nature and power of what is coming

love Nora Khan's writing, how she switches seamlessly across genres and disciplines between fiction, internet and digital culture, politics, music, technology

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“The most highly-charged passages in Cyberpositive are the hefty chunks of Plant/Land writing and Roberts's and Mukherjee's evocations of the techno-rave-Ecstasy-LSD experience. “I used to write a lot in clubs, which probably looked really pretentious,” recalls Roberts. “Tracing what's happening in all the different sound channels and what they're doing spatially and physically to you.” The language veers from masochistic mortification of the flesh (“deep hurting techno,” “the meat is learning to know loss”) to imagery influenced by voodoo and shamanic possession (“white darkness,” “the fog of absolute proximity,” “psyclone,” “beautiful fear”). “It's trying to process the dissassembling of the self,” says Roberts. “Maybe what you're calling abject, we'd call melting. The violence of the sounds in techno, it’s like you're being turned inside out, smeared, penetrated.”“

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Samotári Body Shot English subs

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THE VOID, by Farouk Adil

5 track album

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dots

Another favourite release for this year. 0N4B is Mostafæ Onsy El Ghamry & Rami Abadir. Glitchy ambient click and cuts defying geographical locations and restrictive genres. "0N4B’s music has been a rare find of boundary pushing music with true abstractive power. The works of this duo under this pseudonym tell a tale oscillating between ambient harmonies and glitchy post-structuralism. This style is a continuation from their solo efforts, trying to undermine normative compositions, which are absolutely not related to a specific genre. dots is a very fragile sounding album, reminding us of some Ryoji Ikeda output, relying on the listener’s ability to appreciate the delicacy of the provided soundscapes." Link to review: https://zenevloed.nl/featured/reviewed-0n4b-dots-augsmatic-diaspore/ U can listen to it here: https://soundcloud.com/augsmatic-diaspore/0nb-dots-augsmatic-diaspore-ad007

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Ghosts of My Life

Around a year ago, upon hearing of Mark Fisher's suicide, I started compiling a list of music that influenced him, music that he wrote about, engaged with, listened to but also music or sounds influenced by him. This is not an exhaustive list but (eternally?) in the making: https://www.youtube.com/watch…

Around two weeks ago, I discovered an album by Baghdad-based electronic musician/sound designer Farouk Adil where he engages in a dialogue between the realms of languages that of sound and words. His minimal soundscapes traces spectral presences in his new album "Ghosts of My Life" dedicated to Mark Fisher.

Link to Farouk's album: https://faroukadil.bandcamp.com/album/ghosts-of-my-life

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non-academical experimental scene … like 2/5BZ ( Serhat Köksal )

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C-drik Fermont -  Folio Magazine (2013-2014)

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An introduction to electroacoustic, noise   and experimental music in Asia and Africa

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https://issuu.com/vidandrej/docs/folio1_finito_web/59

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2/5BZ - ANADOLOG (1997)

https://soundcloud.com/2-5bz/2-5bz-anadolog-1997

Anadolog released on ’ An Anthology of Turkish Experimental Music 1961-2014 ’ CD and Vinyl

http://www.visitation-rites.com/2011/03/sightings-25bz-i-am-a-green-child/

serhat koksal : electronics & acoustic saz & live processed effects, feedbacks – armağan t: vocal . track produced “Anadolog” in 1997 and released on 2/5BZ - NO Exotic CD

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Invisible Daily Battles

Listening to other's speak about their mental health issues is one thing, but writing/acknowledging/owning your own is a whole other matter.