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Various - for the Brooklyn rooftop stuff I just used a ten-foot wire. The other end of the radio has to be grounded of course. Mostly I use a 6' vertical antenna; I've also got a radio which picks up the magnetic field - that uses a loop antenna (they're fairly easy to build). - Alan On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Gregory Severance wrote: Alan - What kind of antenna are you using for this? - Gregory Original Message ---- Subject: Reviews of Technologies and Books I like From: Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, January 07, 2006 11:31 pm To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA Reviews of Technologies and Books I like NASA INSPIRE VLF-3 radio receiver kit. This kit - for building a very low frequency radio - costs around $80 and includes around 75 components. You'll need a low-power soldering iron and other (minimal) tools; the assembly takes about four hours - afterwards I felt I could build anything (not true of course). The radio is very high gain, has a built-in filter, data and audio outputs, and mic input on one channel (in order to describe time and location for example). VLF is fascinating; I'm using the signals in my work (spherics, whistlers, moans, insects, passing bikes, dawn chorus, etc.), modifying them with Audiomulch or some such. Check out the INSPIRE site - it's terrific. A VLF-3 is also online; you can pick up the signals through the Net. For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt . Contact: Alan Sondheim, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] General directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org .
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Alan - What kind of antenna are you using for this? - Gregory > Original Message > Subject: Reviews of Technologies and Books I like > From: Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, January 07, 2006 11:31 pm > To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA > > Reviews of Technologies and Books I like > > > > NASA INSPIRE VLF-3 radio receiver kit. This kit - for building a very low > frequency radio - costs around $80 and includes around 75 components. > You'll need a low-power soldering iron and other (minimal) tools; the > assembly takes about four hours - afterwards I felt I could build anything > (not true of course). The radio is very high gain, has a built-in filter, > data and audio outputs, and mic input on one channel (in order to describe > time and location for example). VLF is fascinating; I'm using the signals > in my work (spherics, whistlers, moans, insects, passing bikes, dawn > chorus, etc.), modifying them with Audiomulch or some such. Check out the > INSPIRE site - it's terrific. A VLF-3 is also online; you can pick up the > signals through the Net. >
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On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, phanero wrote: The only thing I've read by brilliakooky klaus is his essay Circles, Lines and Bits which I thought was marvelously eccentric.. His discussion of busby berkely and the rosettes of consciousness the flowering drainpipes of ornamental symmetries as models for an architectural harmonia or some such.. its excellent wiggy stuff. rich scholarship.. i'll pick up the male fantasies book.. Male Fantasies isn't wiggy - it's meticulous unbelievably disturbing btw which Lingis text should I get.. there's a bunch of them is "Excesses" the best place to start.. there's another one called Abuses which sounds sort of like an updating of Levi-Strauss' Tristes Tropiques in a way Not real TT, but I can see why you say that. He's the translator of Levinas. I associate him with Michael Taussig. In any case, yes, Excesses. Also Levinas' existence and existents - Here's the Grotesque Studies Bibliography I am going to try and work from as well: http://mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11072/Grotesque/Pages/grotesquebibliography.html thanks alan lanny Thank you! - Alan
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The only thing I've read by brilliakooky klaus is his essay Circles, Lines and Bits which I thought was marvelously eccentric.. His discussion of busby berkely and the rosettes of consciousness the flowering drainpipes of ornamental symmetries as models for an architectural harmonia or some such.. its excellent wiggy stuff. rich scholarship.. i'll pick up the male fantasies book.. btw which Lingis text should I get.. there's a bunch of them is "Excesses" the best place to start.. there's another one called Abuses which sounds sort of like an updating of Levi-Strauss' Tristes Tropiques in a way Here's the Grotesque Studies Bibliography I am going to try and work from as well: http://mtsu32.mtsu.edu:11072/Grotesque/Pages/grotesquebibliography.html thanks alan lanny - Original Message - From: "Alan Sondheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 4:58 PM Subject: Re: Reviews of Technologies and Books I like This is a great list, Lanny - Have you read Theweleit's Male Fantasies? I'm assuming you have - it fits well in the list you've presented. I love Berrigan btw - met him once through Aram Saroyan. I think Alice Notley is still far more interesting - they were married. You've read Paul Blackburn? Another terrific - - Alan - For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt . Contact: Alan Sondheim, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] General directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org .
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Ditto on Theweleit - amazing writing, amazing material, and very timely. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/08/06 7:58 PM >>> This is a great list, Lanny - Have you read Theweleit's Male Fantasies? I'm assuming you have - it fits well in the list you've presented. I love Berrigan btw - met him once through Aram Saroyan. I think Alice Notley is still far more interesting - they were married. You've read Paul Blackburn? Another terrific - - Alan - For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt . Contact: Alan Sondheim, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] General directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org .
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This is a great list, Lanny - Have you read Theweleit's Male Fantasies? I'm assuming you have - it fits well in the list you've presented. I love Berrigan btw - met him once through Aram Saroyan. I think Alice Notley is still far more interesting - they were married. You've read Paul Blackburn? Another terrific - - Alan - For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt . Contact: Alan Sondheim, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] General directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org .
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This was fascinating! I especially thought the Dawkins book sounded interesting. and for what it's worth I totally agree about the RP stuff.. I also have the one you mention and the book on Hermits is a fantastic read.. I think I have all the one's you mention.. I really wish I could get motivated to read (and do) more tech related stuff, so thanks for the kick in the pants! Not sure if you'd be interested in what I'm reading but here's what I'm working on: starting the second chapter.. its a big book so its sort of unwieldy to read except in a perfect situation Comic Grotesque: Wit and Mockery in German Art, 1870-1940 this is a beautiful exhibition catalogue from the Neue Galerie in NY Amazing discussion of Arnold Bocklin, Paul Klee, Paul Scheerbart, Emil Nolde, Franz Stuck, Karl Valentin, the Satiric Cabaret, Salomo Friedlander.. This is a good book for continuing a study of the grotesque, which is really becoming my focus now.. It especially goes well with following up from the Barbara Maria Stafford book which discusses so many references to the classical[sic] and renaissance grotesqu.. whatever, its a totally groovy ref-book for 'freak-studies' my new home-schooling major.. around 150 pages into.. Toy Medium by Daniel Tiffany a sort of study of the chiasmus of the poetics of material philosophy and the materialism of lyric poetry he does this through a discussion of the history of automata Kepler's treatise on snowflakes animal magnetism, fireworks and cloud-chamber photographs a long list of figures this book also has a good deal of discussion on Wallace Stevens so I'm using the Stevens Collected to put some of the quotes back into contrext.. and the Stevens also dovetails with the grotesque studies.. it seems Stevens is sort of a hub for both the grotesque in modern lyric and 'lyrical substance': It says there is an absolute grotesque. There is a nature that is grotesque within The boulevards of the generals. Why should We say that it is man's interior world Or seeing the spent, unconscious shapes of night, Pretend they are shapes of another consciousness? The grotesque is not a visitation. It is Not apparition but appearance, part Of that simplified geography, in which The sun comes up like news from Africa. Wallace Stevens, "A Word with Jose Rodriguez-Feo" This is quite brilliant, as the root of the word monster comes from monstrado meaning 'to display' and with the double resonance from techne' as an appearing The grotesque is not a visitation. It is Not apparition but appearance [itself] Wallace Stevens makes one of the most important statements to me personally and my work that I've ever found.. or seemed like it.. [gush] finishing up, maybe 30-60 pages left, I jumped around alot Avital Ronell's Stupidity which has some fascinating work on Wordsworth, Doestoevsky, etc. etc.. The stuff on wordsworth is worth the price on the book.. really interesting.. Just beginning Bruce Sterling's Shaping Things which is his first book about design.. not too far into this but it seems unlike anything I've ever read by him.. nearly finished..may have lost interest Aleister Crowley and the Ouija board by J. Edward Cornelius This is a decent book on the history of the ouija board and a very strange book which documents some of the more advanced practices developed by AC and which are still in use by the OTO. This also dovetails well with some of my studies of Yeat's magical life. I picked this up as I've been considering attending the Gnostic Mass at our local very venerable OTO temple.. Just for something to do some evening I thought it might be stimulating in some way or another.. reading this in small chunks.. The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan It seems like a kind of wave went through the blogosphere when this came out so I thought I'd pick it up I'd read the sonnets and like those.. I really like the Out-takes section.. reading in chunks.. Revolution of the Word ed. Jerome Rothenberg exact change reissued this so i thought i'd pick it up.. I really like the Marianne Moore and Charles Henri Ford.. Its a classic I guess.. good one to have around.. about half-way through.. Blake, a biography by peter Ackroyd This is a fascinating read. Well researched as far as I know, (though I've still to ask a Blake prof I know) and just engrossing marvelous snippets of rare drawings from Blake's notebooks, "the traveler" "pissing man" etc.. all manner of detailed histories of the figures and times of Blake's life.. just randomly opening the book now I read about Thomas John's Druid Temple, Boehme's influence.. I'm an 18th century history hound so I just lap this stuff up like candy.. Still plugging, maybe a third done on Jonathan Crary's Suspension of Perception which has among other things some nice work on the Praxinoscope-Theatre with many illustrations of this strange device.. Good Art history - Visual Studies Book this one's done.. The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime [On David Lynch's Lost Highway] by
Reviews of Technologies and Books I like
Reviews of Technologies and Books I like This is a mixed bag - I'm including devices as well as the usual. Understanding the Linux Kernel, O'Reilly, Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati 3rd edition - I'm close to totally ignorant in relation to computer science; on the other hand, I'm quite enjoying this - which for me can only be considered a simultaneous autopsy and archaeology. The book is enormous - around 900 pages - and it gives an indelible picture of even the commonest computer tasks - creating a file for example. But it also provides a picture of an unbelievable architecture, which occasionally gets metaphorically translated - for example, the appendix on System Startup, which moves through such things as 'Prehistoric Age: the BIOS' to 'Modern Age: the start_kernel() Function.' I can follow most of this text, which says a great deal about the authors and the clearness of the exposition. Highly recommended to anyone interested in open software, linux, operating systems, or the vagaries of non-human inordinate complexity. (There are sections on signals, interrupts, process creation/scheduling/killing, program execution, and so forth.) NASA INSPIRE VLF-3 radio receiver kit. This kit - for building a very low frequency radio - costs around $80 and includes around 75 components. You'll need a low-power soldering iron and other (minimal) tools; the assembly takes about four hours - afterwards I felt I could build anything (not true of course). The radio is very high gain, has a built-in filter, data and audio outputs, and mic input on one channel (in order to describe time and location for example). VLF is fascinating; I'm using the signals in my work (spherics, whistlers, moans, insects, passing bikes, dawn chorus, etc.), modifying them with Audiomulch or some such. Check out the INSPIRE site - it's terrific. A VLF-3 is also online; you can pick up the signals through the Net. Unix in a Nutshell, O'Reilly, Arnold Robbins, 4th edition. The nut has grow to the size of a coconut; this handbook is huge, covering not only Unix, but GNU/Linux, Mac OSX+, and Solaris, as well as numerous programs, shells, editors, and package managers. While one can always do an 'apropos' and/or 'man' to access online help re: commands, the handbook is useful for browsing through options and examples; it gives excellent overviews of the systems. As usual, lots of stuff on sed, awk, vi, vim, etc. (although the Sed and Awk book - if for no other reason, the title - is still my favorite). One of my favorite deprecated commands seems to be no longer listed - 'fold' - which can split a text various ways. On the other hand, the six and a half pages on 'stty' are invaluable (necessary when accessing a shell account with the Sharp Zaurus, which runs on linux). This is one book I use pretty constantly. WWII EE-8 field telephones. I found two of these ten-pound units, which run on magnetos (for ringing up) and 3 volts worth of batteries (for actual talk).The circuits are incredibly simple; I had to do some repairs, but it was worth it. The lines are half-duplex - either I talk or you talk, but not both at once. The phones have a switch on them, much like CB radio. I've been using these for audio pieces, and eventually they'll end up in an installation in Los Angeles. Check out http://www.asondheim.org/fieldphone2.mp3 for an example. Speaking of old equipment, I'm also playing around with an 1895 telegraph receiver; this is similar to a morse-code key, except that it's activated by two solenoids. The result - send 1.5 volts through it, and you'll hear a click. That's all. It's small and can be placed on all sorts of resonators. The 'down' click has a different sound/'feel' from the 'up' click and the telegraph operator had to tell the difference. Linux Multimedia Hacks, Tips & Tools for Taming Images, Audio, and Video, O'Reilly, Kyle Rankin. I _still_ am frustrated with linux, although I've temporarily given up on it, in terms of multimedia. Blender and Gimp work incredibly well, even ImageMagick can be a kind of murderous fun. But I really want to work more intuitively, closer to WYSIWYG, which is usually possible even in Premiere. This book is unusual, and when I return to linux (after the full-speed ahead media stuff I'm chained to at the moment), I'll be working through it. There is an entire chapter on broad- cast media - TV, podcasting, ripping audio/video, etc. There's neat stuff as usual on transforming video into ASCII, stuff on Audacity (one of the cooler sound editors around), and stuff on the Web. What's missing for me - and this is _really_ me, not the OS - is the multi-media environment; this book goes a long way towards creating one. Why use linux at all for media? Because it's fun, because it's more or less ope
