[spectre] Recommended reading for a Sunday afternoon: The road to plunderphonia, by Chris Cutler

[Radio Web MACBA]

*The road to plunderphonia, by Chris Cutler*

Chris Cutler investigates how the fact and the practice of sound recording
have transformed every aspect of production and reception in the field of
organised sound, creating wholly new genres and understandings.

Link:
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/quaderns-audio/quadern_audio_chris_cutler/capsula
http://rwm.macba.cat/en/quaderns-audio/quadern_audio_chris_cutler/capsula
PDF:
http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20110104/QA_04_Cutler.pdf

In The road to plunderphonia Chris Cutler looks at the critical role of
memory – on which both the origination and reproduction of music turns –
and attempts to unpick to what extent the specific nature of a memory
system shapes the music that it mediates, with reference, especially, to
the third and newest of these systems: sound recording. Chris investigates
how the fact and the practice of sound recording have transformed every
aspect of production and reception in the field of organised sound,
creating wholly new genres and understandings. If the medium is the
message, this essay is an attempt to understand what the message of this
system is.

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[spectre] Turbulence Commission: Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise by Jason Nelson

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Turbulence Commission: Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise by Jason 
Nelson
http://turbulence.org/works/nothing
[Needs speakers/headphones]

Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise is an art/poetry/adventuring game, 
a playland for exploring our ever-present desire for constant and over-blown 
rewards. Our worlds (digital and breathing) are filled with needless and 
unearned praise, we are built to love exploding trophies for fifth place. This 
art/poetry game satisfies your compliment addiction by celebrating your 
walking/jumping/falling through strange and wondrous anatomical lands.

Nothing You Have Done Deserves Such Praise is a 2013 commission of New Radio 
and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence website. It was funded by the 
National Endowment for the Arts.

BIOGRAPHY

Born from the Oklahoma flatlands of farmers and spring thunderstorms, JASON 
NELSON somehow stumbled into creating awkward and wondrous digital poems and 
interactive stories of odd lives, building confounding art games and all manner 
of curious digital creatures. Currently he professes Net Art and Electronic 
Literature at Australia’s Griffith University in the Gold Coast's contradictory 
shores. He exhibits widely with work featured around globe at FILE, ACM, LEA, 
ISEA, ACM, ELO and dozens of other acronyms. There are awards to list, boards 
he frequents, and other accolades, but in the web-based realm where his work 
resides, Jason is most proud of the millions of visitors his artwork/digital 
poetry portal secrettechnology.com attracts each year.

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