Return to Zero 🔬 @sciss@octodon.social

It's Saturday because at this point in the week you are extremely saturated.

About this account

I'm a sound and digital artist, interested in installation and intermedia, improvisation and electronic/electroacoustic music. I develop a bunch of open source software.

I keep only one account, so the toots are a mix of sound/art focused things, random thoughts, and few rants (CW'd, and you don't need to share my opinion). I'm friendly/respectful 🍍 + aim to keep an open mind.

Account is locked (allow time to review), because I don't want bots and nazis to follow me. Thx 🌈

We're doing a short contribution to the next-#Iterations project live broadcast today between 16:15 and 16:30 CET - program is already running now, so you can tune in

https://iterations.space/live/

"We are habituated to the assumption that we invent or 'have' thoughts that belong to us, that we can secure them with a signature, which then allows us the right to claim them as our intellectual property. The thinkable operates in quite another way. A thinkable, and this will no doubt sound counter-intuitive, is independent of either a given thinker or a fixed object of thought; instead, it circulates between both in the midst of an event, a taking place that takes more or less time. It is less the thought that I have than the thought that strikes me, coming from elsewhere, emerging in the midst of an encounter…"

It's Saturday because at this point in the week you are extremely saturated.

"… some contemporary research … completely renews _the very notion of indexation_. No explicit intuition accompanies the ‘classical’ behaviour of calculations: in formulae of the type ∑ᵢ = , the set of indices is neutral and the indexation remains completely external to the development of these calculations, behaving like a ‘notation’ which is completely indifferent to that which it notes. These formulae remain captive to a linear successiveness, x₁ then x₂ then x₃ etc., an artificial sequence a little analogous to the chain of verbs _veni, vidi, vici_ where the temporal order of the processes of enunciation … replicate exactly the order of the processes of the statement … The contemporary point of view makes the notation _concrete_ by identifying it with a diagram already used in an _a priori_ foreign domain … This domain thus 'evokes’ gestures which are classical for it, but completely new in the domain when it is imported as ‘notation’ … This upsets the very notion of indexation which becomes _bi-dimensional_ in freeing itself from the successive: it is very much a victory of the hand that comments on itself, the indexation no longer being delivered by an external ‘set’, but by a process of deformation and modification of diagrams."

"For centuries 'generalization,' as operated by the West, brought different community tempos into an equivalency in which it attempted to give a hierarchical order to the times they flowered. Now that the panorama has been determined and equidistances described, is it not, perhaps, time to return to a no less necessary 'degeneralization'? Not to a replenished outrageous excess of specificities but to a total (dreamed-of) freedom of the connections among them, cleared out of the very chaos of their confrontations."

"When a writer sinks into the pure intimacy of a work which is no one's business but his {-sic-} own, it may seem to other people—other writers and people involved in other activities—that at least they have been left at peace in their Thing and their own work. But not at aIl. The work created by this solitary person and endosed in solitude contains within itself a point of view which concerns everyone, implicitly passing judgment on other works, on the problems of the times, becoming the accomplice of whatever it neglects, the enemy of whatever it abandons, and its indifference mingles hypocriticaIly with everyone's passions."

So this is what really happened to the ALMAT symposium…

Rücken-an-Rücken
(vs. St-Exupéry friendship)
"you have my back"
regardless

barfuß den Steinen ausweichen
barfooted, evading the stones

Here's the video walk through: https://diode.zone/videos/watch/889507c8-cf76-405f-baf9-c63220accb82

I published a new #Mellite version 2.46.0, with a lot of bug fixes and improvements for FScape.

There is a cool new workspace in the downloads ( https://archive.org/download/Mellite ) for an Impulse Response measuring tool (Impulse-1.2.0.mllt.zip). I want to add a video run through for that soon, but hopefully it's not too difficult to run in any case.

Another one with glissandi.

https://gist.github.com/Sciss/b2ef8ab85fc92f3cb7abec8ed7f22d92

If you go to the sound file below "{hhr 200329}" (right hand) on https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/711706/776582 , that's rendered with one binaural position for each of the eight channels (background ambience file is a stereo recording, not encoded). Best to skip 2 minutes into the file for headphones impression.

#Mellite v2.45.0 is published. I have been mainly working on the Control/Act languages, as I implement two new installations with them, finding problems and missing bits.

Thinking of making another video or text tutorial soon. Any ideas or topics that I should cover?

https://www.sciss.de/mellite/

Determining regions in rendered sounds based on loudness contour (lots of FScape debugging as a "fun" side activity)

And another #call for an artist #residency starting in October 2020, from our sister project at IEM:

https://interagency.iem.at/artist_residency.html

#IEM Music #Residency Program 2021/22 has issued a new #call for applications: https://iem.kug.ac.at/institut-aktuell/details/article/iem-music-residency-program-2021-and-2022-call-for-applications.html

Some advances in developing the sound installation 'Through Segments' with a layer running on a Pi 4.

Definitely slower than on the laptop, but no real issues so far. Few xruns with binaural simulation and no jack params adjusted yet, so I'm fairly optimistic.

Have to run for long time to see if there are any memory leaks or such.

#MAST (Master Module in Art Science Technology) has published a series of podcasts with artists and scholars:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=podmast

Oliver Baurhenn, Manuel Beltran, Jenny Brockmann, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Dieter Daniels, Marco Donnaruma, Cristina Fiordimela, Maya Indira Ganesh, Kyriaki Goni, Freddy Paul Gruenert, Jekatarina, Janez Leban, Sanja Leban, Pauline Miko, Nahum Romero, Tiara Roxanne, Hanns Holger Rutz, Theresa Schubert, Robertina Sebjanic, Alois Yang

#plifier

(does this need cw for screw terminal kink?)