>From: "Ruine der Kuenste Berlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: NetSoundArt for Tibetans...
>Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 21:09:48 +0200
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>NetSoundArt for Tibetans, Chinese and Japanese:
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>A threefold internet art piece by Wolf Kahlen in Tibetan, Chinese and
>Japanese language is online since today.
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>Live and interactive the visitor of the page
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><http://www.tu-berlin.de/~arch_net_art/2.html>www.tu-berlin.de/~arch_net_art/2.html
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>may hear a piece of world literature of these countries, the first page at
>least. If he is patient enough to find out on a blank page, with the mouse
>in motion, the sound of the words hidden in the background like on a book
>page. This automatically turns out to be a game, since any move of the
>mouse touches another word. Until the underlying structure has been found
>out, a number of audio events have happened, words' sounds have
>overlapped or entangled at random. Who stirs with the mouse produces a
>concert like a DJ. The presented world's classics are by Tibet's greatest
>poet Milarepa (11./12. Century), the Chinese Tang-Dynasty poet Li Bo (6.-
>9. Century) or the alphabet-poem attributed to Kukai of Japan. It is of
>political delicacy that Wolf Kahlen, who did a number of documentaries in
>Tibet and Mongolia since 1985, parallels Tibet with China.
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>Possibly the first Tibetan language internet site to listen to, probably
>frequented joyfully by the world spread Tibetans and the few with access
>in Lhasa and other parts of the Snowland. Who has entered the site either
>reads Tibatan, Chinese or Japanese or has been attracted by the curious
>writings, since all three titles are of course in original characters.
>Another way to support the cultures in their differences. The hearing
>experience of the pieces, roughly translated as
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>Sorry, Milarepa / Excuse me, Kukai / I beg your pardon, Li Bo,
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>spans the whole spectrum between playful chaotic sounds, own word
>combinations and listening to a fluently spoken classical piece: all
>democratic ways of using words. Words as material per se. And since these
>words bump into each other in most cases other than as a structered
>classical piece, Wolf Kahlen asks the authors for excuse in the titles
>already beforehand. As a side effect the net is swept blank off the
>overload of images. And the sound of the 'bush drums' is heard again.
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>These three pieces continue the former realized three ones in English,
>German and Spanish language
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>Sorry, Mister Joyce / Verzeihung, Herr von Goethe / Perdone, Don Cervantes
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>on
><http://www.tu-berlin.de/~arch_net_art/1.html>www.tu-berlin.de/~arch_net_art/1.html
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>More pieces in a great number of world languages are under construction.
>They kind of point out on the polarisation of the numb and speechless
>making psycho esthetic feedbacks of the net 'culture'. The texts are
>usually read by native artists.
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>Li Bo read by Zhao Zhao
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>Kukai by Masuko Iso,
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>Milarepa by Tsewang Norbu,
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>Goethe by Wolf Kahlen,
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>Joyce by David Allen,
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>Cervantes by Argine Erginas.
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>Stay tuned.
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>Edition Ruine der Kuenste Berlin
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