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Music for writing

Submitted by doll_yoko on Sat, 04/18/2009 - 07:56

Writuals for Writing:

scents, sounds, objects - to help get into the zone

Where the Radio Stops, the Music Begins

Submitted by Lindsay on Sat, 11/22/2008 - 11:26
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Where the Radio Stops,

In 1895, Breuer and Freud published Studies on Hysteria, a seminal account of the development of the first scientific method for analysing the realities of the human mind, which suggested a new way of making inferences from the symbolic forms created in dreams using techniques such as free-association. This same year also saw the development of one of the first motion picture cameras by the Lumiere Brothers. The Cinematograph, a device that acted as a camera, developer and a projector, had its first public demonstration in the form of a twelve-film screening in Paris. The Cinematograph not only pipped Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope to the post as the first publicised machine to enable a ‘cinematic’ event, but also hailed the start of an era of innovative communication, story telling and recording of realities.

Lost Music

Submitted by Lindsay on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 21:58
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My research today took a poetic wander. In thinking about the electromagnetic environment and how 'on land' we are submerged in modulated mumblings, my thoughts turned to the electromagnetically silent world of the deep, a world where radio and light don't penetrate, a world that can only be felt through other senses; the skin, the emotions, sound. Today I started looking at the Titanic.

Titanic Hull

Submitted by Lindsay on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 20:35
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This is a picture (2004) taken of the hull of the Titanic 92 years after she sunk. The wreck lies at approximately 3,500 metres below the surface of the water, which is the same distance as the tops of some alpine peaks. This very beautiful and peaceful photograph along with a selected few other relatively hi-res images can be found at the Boat Shed

All photographs by Robert Ballard, the original diver discoverer of the Titanic wreck. The image was retrieved from the above link.

Titanic Hull
Copyright: 
by the photographer

John Cage: Silence and Silencing

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 14:56
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Kahn D.  1997.  John Cage: Silence and Silencing. The Musical Quarterly. 81:556--598.

Funkhaus circuit

Submitted by Lindsay on Sat, 07/12/2008 - 10:33
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I found this and other beautiful circuit drawings whilst foraging in the derelict back buildings and basement of the Rundfunk der DDR, Funkhaus Nalepastrasse. Even thought the main building is still used for recording and performance, the back buildings are a hive of discoveries for the explorer with skip-raking tendencies with all sorts of communicative artefacts lying around from 70's intercoms to glass tanks for battery making.

Funkhaus circuit

U-Bahn

Submitted by Lindsay on Wed, 07/09/2008 - 08:09
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A one stop journey on the U-Bahn recorded with a low frequency EM sniffer (amplifier) and solid-state recorder.


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