POULOMI DESAI Logbook

A scrapbook of ideas, references for projects and research by Poulomi Desai. Also see: http://www.poulomidesai.tumblr.com and http://www.usurp.org.uk for current artwork and sound projects.

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Some Call it Noise - Turbulent Forms exhibition documentation

Some Call it Noise is a documentary looking at the sounds, artist’s and experts working with Very Low Frequency (VLF) sound. It presents these works and interviews layered together as a stream of consciousness sound work which can be experienced on multiple levels.

The artists, experts and works featured are:

Patrick Sykes, Sunsong: Featuring: Dr Simon Foster, Stephen McGreevy, Dan Tapper

Nasa Sound Archive: Various sounds of space radio and radio transmission taken from the NASA archive including audio from Kepler, Saturn, HASP and test transmissions

Dan Tapper, various electromagnetic recordings of objects: Various sounds recorded electromagnetically of household objects including routers, mobile telephones and televisions

Semiconductor - 20Hz

Joyce Hinterding - Spectral, Antiopic

Alvin Lucier - Sferics, Lovely Music

Dan Tapper - Changing Signals

Dan Tapper - Recording The Spirit Level

Dan Tapper - Close Lightning Spherics

Honor Harger - A History of the Universe in Sound, TED

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new book/giveaway

hello fronds and friends,

i’ve written a lot of text posts lately. here is another.

a new book of mine, alright! will be coming out real soon. it is a comic about the autumn. it touches on a lot of therapeutic memories. i’ve never really made anything like that before, but it occupied a lot of my artistic efforts from september through december. 

in celebration/whatever, i am giving away copies of my first book if i weren’t so lost and scared, i might be having fun!, which i wrote last summer. if you want to pay for it, you can get it here:

tinyurl.com/imightbehavingfun 

it looks like this:

and includes a bunch of very personal entries, like this:

but if you would like a shot at a free copy, you should reblog this post! i will be giving away five worldwide. 

basic rules: like to save, reblog to enter, multiple reblogs will increase your chances. i think it will be out some time next week. so i will say that the competition will end at midnight gmt next sunday. good luck! it’s weird to wish people good luck for maybe wanting a free copy of your book! i don’t know! have a nice day!

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Public Domain Review (@publidomainrev) featured our manuscript “The Lights of Canopus” W.599 (1847): http://bit.ly/2DPJw7e. It is a Persian version of an Indian collection of animal fables called the “Panchatantra."⠀ ⠀ See the full manuscript on our manuscripts website: http://bit.ly/2DNeCw9 http://bit.ly/2DrUMcU

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Amjad Sabri, an esteemed Pakistani qawali singer has been shot and killed by the Taliban in Karachi on Wednesday, 22nd June. He used to sing Sufi songs. Sufism is described as a “mystical Islamic belief and practice in which Muslims seek to find the truth of divine love and knowledge through direct personal experience of God”. It’s about peace and love and harmony. And he was just brutally murdered by terrorists. The world should know.

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Patterson performing A Penny for Your Thoughts at Performa in New York in 2013.LIZ LIGON/PERFORMA Ben Patterson, the artist, composer, and double bassist who

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Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics: Historical archive of profiles of 20th century women who have made original and important contributions to physics. Each profile focuses on the physicist's scientific work, presents brief descriptions of major contributions,and lists important publications, honors, and appointments.

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Hegel was adamant – and Adorno would have entirely agreed with him – that in the possible and constant defeat of modern history, what is needed is not atonement or propitiation for sinfulness but more negation, that is, more thinking that refuses to accept its object for what it claims to be. And Adorno would also have again agreed with Hegel that this refusal would necessarily proceed immanently, as a process in which the object is so bound by its own words that by them alone it would be compelled to take the measure of itself, find itself inadequate to its own claims, and willingly shed its own persevering illusion. Only in its own words would it find the compelling resource to rebut them.

Robert Hullot-Kentor, “Unforgiving Art, Unforgivable Nations.” (via mir-nicht)

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The star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin presents her personal story of the real plight of undocumented immigrants in this country

Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents and brother were arrested and deported while she was at school. Born in the U.S., Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without the support system of her family.

In the Country We Love is a moving, heartbreaking story of one woman’s extraordinary resilience in the face of the nightmarish struggles of undocumented residents in this country. There are over 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US, many of whom have citizen children, whose lives here are just as precarious, and whose stories haven’t been told. Written with Michelle Burford, this memoir is a tale of personal triumph that also casts a much-needed light on the fears that haunt the daily existence of families like the author’s and on a system that fails them over and over.

Available in Hardcover & E-book **May 2016

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It’s one of the biggest record collections in the world - and it’s all ours. The publically available British Library Sound Archive in London contains everything from chart-topping CDs to 19th-century wax cylinder recordings, and a vast digitisation project is under way to preserve the rarest recordings forever…

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SOLICITATIONS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE ORDER THE MIGHTY WOMEN OF SCIENCE Release Date: 20 April 2016 | 48 Page Graphic Novel R.R.P £9.99 | ISBN: 978-1-910775-06-6 Art & Colours by Clare Forrest with text by Fiona Gordon Clare Forrest’s Mighty Women of Science is a playful and enlightening look at some well known- and some not so well known- women who have and continue to change the world of science. From A for Astronaut (Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space) to Z for Zoologist (the award winning Biruté Gladikas), Mighty Women of Science is an all ages book in full colour. As this book is still in production, reviews will follow later

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Laurent Millet. Sominum. 2014.

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Adolf Wölfli

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Oliver Sacks, Casting Light on the Interconnectedness of Life

Whether writing about his patients, his love of chemistry or the power of music, Dr. Sacks leapfrogged among disciplines, shedding light on the connections between science and art.

R.I.P. Oliver Sacks.

“Dr. Sacks, who died on Sunday at 82, was a polymath and an ardent humanist, and whether he was writing about his patients, or his love of chemistry or the power of music, he leapfrogged among disciplines, shedding light on the strange and wonderful interconnectedness of life — the connections between science and art, physiology and psychology, the beauty and economy of the natural world and the magic of the human imagination.“

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Ana Mendieta - Bird Transformation-1972

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Notes on the The Act of Creation -by Arthur Koestler

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Eric Ravilious: Chalk and Ice, Sunday Feature - BBC Radio 3

Alexandra Harris explores the life and work of the elusive artist Eric Ravilious.

“Eric Ravilious is considered one of the best watercolourists of the twentieth century. His art is increasingly familiar: a chalk horse seen through a train window, an engine abandoned in a field, the oddly sinister curve of a hosepipe on a greenhouse floor. 'Eric Ravilious: Chalk and Ice' explores the Essex landscapes that Ravilious loved. The Fry Gallery in Saffron Walden is a treasure-house of his work from ceramics and book illustrations to the sublime watercolours he painted before serving as an Official War Artist in the Arctic Circle where he died in 1942 at the age of only 39. Alexandra Harris explores the life of work of this elusive man and his art with the writers Hermione Lee and Robert Macfarlane, art historians Frances Spalding and Alan Powers, poets Pauline Stainer and Sean O'Brien and the Director of the Fry Gallery David Oelman...”