Shimmed VLF w/ Kira Sedlock http://www.alansondheim.org/shimmed.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/shimmed.jpg (In which I say nothing, poorly: The first video explored the body as vlf antenna, taken directly from a vlf receiver as Kira moved on-stage. This video explores the body's subsonic sound as Kira moves; the sound was recorded with a vibration meter whose range starts at perhaps .1 Hz; the meter was cabled directly into a digital recorder. The .wav file was roughly set 96 Hz max; I raised several the result octaves in Audition (working with various sampling techniques) to make Kira's movement audible. Everything affected everything, from breathing to hand-gestures to outside sounds. If the first vlf piece might be said to represent the electro-magnetic changes in the environment, based on antenna and body movement, then this be considered the physical 'murmuration' of the architecture, air, body, even the outside environment, creating a different but parallel listening experience. Everything sounds through electromagnetism, atmosphere, cosmic crackle; everything moves, everything sings to everything, even on Mars, on Titan, within and without black holes and nebulae. We all know this already, but to hear all of this, is remarkable. There we are, disturbances, but not disturbances - say instead, languaging, electromagnetic and acoustic generators, interpenetrating, roiling, O physics, O Andromeda! "Sonification" doesn't do this justice; it's deeply arbitrary, creating music according to our pubescent desires. Instead, it's far more interesting, I think, to just raise or lower frequency with the least possible interference and remapping algorithms. For what the 'world' might tell us in its deep yet omnipresent alterity is perhaps more relevant, than what I, or anyone else, might make of it. (The music of _2001_ is an exact or inexact opposite for example, that carries through with almost every video that NASA etc. releases. We might think we're listening to the stars, but we're far more likely to be listening to histrionic romanticism instead - so while "we" are out there, exploring space and time, we're bringing along our baggage, which in so many ways, is ultimately destructive. The universe is no more neighborly than our neighbors might be, and recognizing strangers and strangeness as worlds not for the conquering might be a first reasonable step towards an inconceivable knowledge that might well be better, not for humanism, but for humanity, on whatever scale and time.) (Or maybe not.)) _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
