Quest For Emergence

My personal collage of all things I find interesting.

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Cartridge music was composed by John Cage in 1960 and is scored for amplified small sounds. A cartridge is a vintage phonograph pickup into which a gramophone needle is inserted for the playing of records. Instead of a needle, any object that will fit into the cartridge may be inserted eg. a coil of wire, a toothpick, a paperclip etc. In addition 'auxiliary sounds' are made with the use of contact microphones.

Langham Research Centre is Felix Carey, Iain Chambers, Philip Tagney and Robert Worby. They are devoted to authentic performances of classic electronic music, and the creation of new music from their instrumentarium of vintage analogue devices.

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"I consider laughter preferable to tears."

For Water Walk, Cage rounded up a variety of “instruments” all to do with that liquid — a bathtub, a pitcher, ice cubes in a mixer — and the unconventional symphony they produce culminates in the Rube Goldbergian mixing of a drink, the sipping of which the composition dictates about two and a half minutes in. Naturally, Cage being Cage, the piece incorporates audience reaction noises; when host Gary Moore warns him that certain members of the studio audience will laugh, Cage responds, “I consider laughter better than tears.”

John Cage performed Water Walk on the US Game Show “I’ve Got a Secret” in 1960.

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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Lao Tzu

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Legendary photographer documents vast country over three decades - CNN.com

“To India. The Land of Contradictions.”

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The Invention of Ambient Music - The New Yorker

Meet Harmonia, the obscure nineteen-seventies German supergroup that influenced David Bowie and Brian Eno.

“Trying to imitate my heroes. After a few years, I noticed that this was not enough to express my personality. Now I wonder why this does not happen more often. I mean, I’m glad when young musicians say, ‘We are your fans, we love your music, and we try to sound like you.’ In a way, this is flattering. But sometimes I think it would be better, and they would understand me better, if they understood that what they liked about this music has to do with finding your own song. Your own identity. With trying to move forward. To move on.”

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“The truth of our times.”

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Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor explain the “Swarmatron”, which was used to create parts of the score of “The Social Network”.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarmatron

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Long Live the Triforium! Reviving LA’s Public Art Boondoggle

LOS ANGELES — The Triforium was supposed to be a beacon for Los Angeles’ future, but forty years after its completion, the public artwork has yet to fulfill the vision of its creator.

“Out lost vision of the future.” 

I first heard about the Triforium through an interview feature by “The Verge” with the LA-based futuristic band “Yacht” about the visions of the future from the past.  The Triforium set out to do something that was way ahead of its time but it wasn’t so well received by the creative community in LA and by the public, in general. Don’t know what the future holds for the Triforium, but it was definitely an interesting read for me.

The link to the “Yacht” interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l88ToHK4hU

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Generative Illustrations by Janusz Jurek

Janusz Jurek is a Polish designer and illustrator from Ostrow Wlkp. Over the last year, he has been exploring different forms of generative illustration as it relates to the human form. You can see more of his generative illustration work over on Behance.

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“Missouri-based artist Melissa McCracken paints music. As a synesthete, the sounds that she hears every day—whether it's someone's name or a song on the radio—are translated into vibrant, beautiful colors that carry the cadence of melodies. McCracken's vivid paintings stem from her desire to capture her daily experiences so that others can understand the brilliant, saturated world she inhabits.”

Here is her interpretation of 2 of my favorite songs by James Blake. Why James Blake? Well, because I like him.

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Here's what classic pieces of literature look like with all the words removed.

A designer removed all words from classic literature, leaving only punctuation marks.

Nicholas Rougeux is a designer and artist from Chicago who decided to see what it would look like if all the words were removed from classic pieces of literature. The result is Between The Words, a series of posters that celebrates the dots, dashes, and quotation marks sprinkled throughout iconic literary works.

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values.

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Directed by Sofia Mattioli and Cherise Payne.

“Music is a medium formed by silence and sound.

Here we explore how music can be created by only having silence and creating sound with the use of imagination.”

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Jon Hopkins stars in the second installment of our new show Supersonic, which features innovative artists exploring the challenges of taking electronic music from the studio to the stage. This installment was shot at Montreal's MUTEK Festival.

Thank you to Linden Gledhill and the Creators Project for allowing us to use Gledhill's microscopic imagery he created for the "Immunity” album.

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For Elaenia’s artwork, Floating Points “built a harmonograph from scratch to create the artwork for Elaenia, the end result created by using it and 2 fibre optic cables of 0.5 and 1.5mm diameters, which were connected to light sources responding to bass drum and white noise percussive sounds from the album track ‘For Marmish’.”

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Beautiful things grow out of shit. Nobody ever believes that. Everyone thinks that Beethoven had his string quartets completely in his head—they somehow appeared there and formed in his head—and all he had to do was write them down and they would be manifest to the world. But what I think is so interesting, and would really be a lesson that everybody should learn, is that things come out of nothing. Things evolve out of nothing. You know, the tiniest seed in the right situation turns into the most beautiful forest. And then the most promising seed in the wrong situation turns into nothing. I think this would be important for people to understand, because it gives people confidence in their own lives to know that’s how things work. If you walk around with the idea that there are some people who are so gifted—they have these wonderful things in their head but and you’re not one of them, you’re just sort of a normal person, you could never do anything like that—then you live a different kind of life. You could have another kind of life where you could say, well, I know that things come from nothing very much, start from unpromising beginnings, and I’m an unpromising beginning, and I could start something.

Brian Eno, Here Is What Is (cf. David Rakoff: “Writing starts off as shit.”)