#jhave

[shiibuh]

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[geratura]

Mead recipe: dilute honey with water, stir twice a day, wait.  

Fermentation begins after 24-48 hours. After a week, the fermented honey-wine (mead) can be enjoyed green, low in alcohol yet lively with essence. Or you can let it continue.

Generative-poetry recipe: text-corpus analysed by neural net, wait.

After each reading of the corpus (a.k.a. ‘training epoch’), a neural net can produce/save a model. Think of the model as an ecosystem produced by fermentation, an idea, a bubbling contingency, a knot of flavours, a succulent reservoir, a tangy substrate that represents the contours, topology or intricacies of the source corpus. Early models ( a model is usually produced after the algorithm reads the entire corpus; remember, each reading of the corpus is called an epoch; after 4-7 epochs the models are still young) may be obscure but are often buoyant with energy (like kids mimicking modern dance).

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Eventually fermentation processes halt. In the case of mead, this may occur after a month; with neural nets, a process called simulated annealing intentionally decreases the learning rate every iteration; so the system begins by exploring large features then focuses on details. Eventually the learning rate diminishes to zero. Learning (fermentation) stops.

[concpo]

Jhave articulates a concern of "This Ain't Your Daddy's Concpo"

Concrete is a technological substance: a synthetic hard surface, impermeable, roadworthy. The intention of concrete poetry's founders (Eugen Gomringer in Switzerland and simultaneously the Noigandres group in Brazil) was to differentiate and distance *concrete* from the soft, emotional, labial ambiguity of traditional poetry; an inadvertent side effect of the initial intention is that a residual machismo clings to concrete poetry's exposition. —Aesthetic Animism, p. 26

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6 Weird Questions asked in a Wired Way

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Disclaimer : MPAA: Mass Produced Artistic Axioms : generative writing for nascent censors

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Concrete P. by Jhave. 2011

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“Remember, these are evolutionary amoebas, toddlers just learning to babble. The amazing thing is that without being given any syntax rules, they are speaking, generating a kind of prototypical glossolalia poem, character by character. Note: models are like wines, idiosyncratic reservoirs, the output of each has a distinct taste, — some have mastered open lines, others mutter densely, many mangle words to make neologisms  — each has obsessions. The Wavenet algorithm is analogous to a winery: its processes ensure that all of the models are similar. Tensorflow is the local region; recursive neural nets form the ecosystem. The corpus is the grapes.“

[becomingarchitecture]

A sonic mashup engine built for spoken word and Pennsound archives.

After you click a few boxes to get some tracks going, turn on WEAVE on the left and try playing with the threshold, tolerance and pause settings.