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Interview with Douglas Kahn, exploring the different instances when what he calls Natural Radio takes place, the “radio that is generated by activities within the atmosphere of the Earth, the ionosphere and the magnetosphere”.

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« Peut-on entendre la Terre ? Non pas les sons qui se produisent à sa surface, mais la Terre elle-même, à une échelle géophysique ? (…) Nous appartenons désormais à des communautés internet mondiales, dépourvues de tout habitat naturel, où les paysages sillonnés sur le parcours de nos messages sont ensevelis sous un effondrement de circuits, qui est refoulé pour produire l’illusion d’une communication immédiate et instantanée." Douglas Kahn Earth to Disk est une œuvre de Nicolas Maigret et Nicolas Montgermont, membres du duo Art of Failure (2008 – 2011). Ayant fait graver sur un disque vinyle les données relevées par un radar topographique, ils proposent d’écouter la lecture de ces données par le saphir d’une platine audio. Ainsi les sillons phonographiques se métamorphosent-ils pour figurer les Alpes, les Andes, l’Himalaya, le Grand Canyon, les steppes d’Asie centrale, la vallée du Rift, l’Outback australien ou l’archipel des Petites Antilles. Le support du disque vinyle, d’où s’élevaient autrefois les voix d’Enrico Caruso ou de Nellie Melba, donne aujourd’hui à entendre la péninsule de Baja, l’Antarctique, ou les points d’orgue bathymétriques de la mer Rouge et de la baie de Baffin.

Flat Earth Society, ART OF FAILURE (2008-2011).

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The universe is made of a single eternal substance, eternally vibrating in an infinite range of frequencies. Everything we know is something vibrating: the universe is like a vast orchestra playing an eternal music of millions of octaves combined into an infinite variety of melodies and harmonies.

Douglas Kahn, Earth Sound Earth Signal (Source)

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Moreover, sounds can be heard coming from outside and behind the range of peripheral vision, and a sound of adequate intensity can be felt on and within the body as a whole, thereby dislocating the frontal and conceptual associations of vision with an all-around corporeality and spatiality.

Douglas Kahn, Noise Water Meat, pg 27

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"Noise can be understood in one sense to be that constant grating sound generated by the movement between the abstract and empirical. It need not be loud, for it can go unheard even in the most intense communication. Imperfections in script, verbal pauses, and poor phrasing are regularly passed over in the greater purpose of communication, yet they always threaten to break out into an impassable noise and cause real havoc."

Douglas Kahn, Noise Water Meat, pg 25

So I'm revisiting an Independent Study project I did a while back on noise, sound and music and part of that involves rereading some of the very postmodern texts I used as reference material. Rather than quoting them outright though, I felt like it would be more interesting to record the sound of the quote to see how an audio post interacts with the content matter in different ways. Blacklist "#Noise Water Meat" if you don't want to see this.

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"Noise is  world where anything can happen, including and especially itself. In a predictable world noise promises something out of the ordinary, and in a world in frantic pursuit of the extraordinary noise can promise the banal and quotidian. In a predictable world it can generate possibility and then obligingly self-destruct."

Noise Water Meat, Douglas Kahn, pg 22