dear Johannes and Alan, just to let you know - I enjoy your conversation - reading it when ever I can, going back to a text written a few month's ago and starting to listen to the eyebeam mp3's today - but they will have to wait - they ask all my attention - I can't do anything else at the same time this is not radio
warm greetings Annie ps I would love to listen to the hopefully soon upcoming 24 hours event - please don't forget to make a lot of fuss about it Alan it could be interesting to couple it up with a 24 hour listening event on a platform like waterwheel - maybe even organising a parallel online jam (one stream coming from your live event)... On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Johannes Birringer < johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk> wrote: > > > dear Alan > > oh, not at all, i think it was a small language misunderstanding. > I used the term "barely" in a temporal sense, reflecting on how and > whether this > radio, this netbehavior list, can be used for sustainable conversation, > and it obviously can, but I find it harder. > For me it felt that you had posted a very interesting and thoughtful > response to my comment > in the middle of the night, and even though I was writing back barely 14 > hours later > and a few times zones apart, it seemed as if our conversation about > durational > performance and music, detuning and détourning, and collective or communal > playing duration, > had already passed/past its time, its due, it was gone, it seemed ages ago > that we met, we talked, and > that you regretted the lack of feedback on the "radio", the network, the > audiences. > > (It would interest me what others here think about reception, feedback, > time, reflection and critique, or do we often post our stuff > and hurry on to the next stuff we do, without pausing?) > > Alan you had already moved on to post the "scent of them" text, and your > comments on the sung lisu. > Aharon then added a personal detail, regarding Edinburgh, and that > interested me –– the moments when our biographies > come into the picture for a tiny moment, and when you then mentioned your > sleeplessness, and that > this Palgrave book (£55, Amazon has it for £ 47) is too expensive, i had > to reflect for a moment on that > one too. > > Yes, that book (hardback) is too expensive, and I only have it because i > am in it and the publisher sent me a complimentary copy, > and after reading your text on dead music, i noted that you are cited > frequently in some chapters (regarding your dead avatars). > The book goes back to a festival, "Intimacy: Across Visceral and Digital > Performance," held in London in 2007, at which my company showed a dance > work > and my design collaborator and I conducted a workshop on > sensing/sensortizing, and after the 2007 festival, the curators decided it > would be a nice > idea to do a book. Well, it just came out and so it only took 4 years. > > Now that is a strange time frame, four years, compared to how we post and > move on here, and that is why i enjoyed your reflections > on other times, your ride across the desert in 1987 after we all left > Dallas, and i agree with you (and then you contradict yourself), the desert > is never empty, > and oil cities (like Texarkana) don't rise out of nothing and descent into > nothing. Probably you were addressing a sense of history > and sedimentation, other purposes, within/against a sense of the wilding > of rich deserts. > (yes, Baudrillard's speculations are quite poor ideological smoke signals; > there is no Paris, Texas) > > In my next posting i will try and comment on a musical experience i had > last night, > and an instrument i saw in action that I enjoyed a lot, the santur. > > best > Johannes Birringer > > > > > > [Alan schreibt] > > Johannes, I'm glad you mentioned the Texas experience because I've seen > nothing else like it. I think the cities are around 400 miles apart, and > the rest is unbelievably emptied. But then I remember reading Baudrillard > on the emptiness of America and finding myself angry, since he assumed > that the desert is blank or void, ignoring the fact it's been home to > Native Americans and wildlife, that it was cultural, responds culturally, > just as much as 'comforting' cities might. It reminds me also of Herzog's > notion of the jungle which was also home and inhabited and cultural / > political, not a brutal or 'seething' nature. My words. Texas is > disruptive too because of the nature of the cities - I remember Marlis > Schmidt who was from Midland, an odd oil city rising out of nothing, > descending into nothing. I wonder if the Sahara is like that. > > I did read Sandy's essay in Chatzichristodoulou's book which I could never > afford, but Sandy sent me a copy, and Yes! > > So I just wrote John Cayley about seeing him in Providence and the news > came on about another John Cayley who just got charged for reckless > truck driving which killed a police officer. Strange. > > Anyway. If I barely replied, I probably did so under a stress medication - > I've been trying to go to sleep around midnight because of our current > stress of things, and Azure has to get up at 6:15 to get to work as a > part-time teaching assistant (there's a hiring freeze for full-tine > teachers here). So at 4:15 I may not have been all there, I probably woke > out of a nightmare (today's was about the Vietnam War). > > - Alan, > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- David Lavaysse " Réconfort infini " (after Annie Abrahams) Édition 1fusé : 10 cassettes audio http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/1fuse/ .
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