The Universe Strummin a Chord

“But it’s a hard chord, so we don’t always get amazing moments…just so-so ones.” –Rod
(Owned by able and honest violinist, Linda Jankowska.)

Pulse

Ryoko Akama had her composition performed by Sumie Kent, master koto player. I made this video of that performance. Beautiful koto sounds.

Exposition

On January 22, 2013

So the most important thing to me would be

THE SIMPLE TRUTH

It’s that fundamental idea that I’m just here.

There’s nothing more to say about that.

Then there’s something I have to deal with:

THE IMAGINARY ADVERSARY

Then there’s

LANGUAGE ITSELF

which is that it is a filter.

Then we can talk about

WHY

This can be broken up

—as far as I know, or have thought about it—

into MY MOTIVATION and THE CONDITIONS

Then there’s

METAPHOR

That is called the Homunculus, and this is called the Cartesian Theatre.

Memories! That’s weird…

Then it will be the end of our species.

Again, I need to focus on right now.

So some of my MOTIVATIONS are fear-based

Maybe you’re just me.

Maybe you’re just me out there.

[At this point I should have written

PROCESS

This occurred to me only later that day.]

probably the most

legible manifestations of that communication

Sight/Consciousness Studies

Locative Audio

Ricardo Climent asked me to document the locative audio event hosted by Novars at the University of Manchester. This is the result. I gathered footage over two days–the practice/set-up day and the actual day. A lot of cool stuff that gave me ideas for my own cool stuff down the line–and specifically from having seen Atau Tanaka’s performance. Also Alex Allred’s essay was really poetic (here’s a link to that text in full). If you would like more information about the event there’s this from NoTours.

Locative Audio – a film by Angela Guyton for locativeaudio.org from NOVARS Research Centre on Vimeo.