Saturday, October 8, 2005

Red Red johndan posted a photo: - johndan [johndan's Photos] 10:32:54 PM

Elliot Sharp: Experimental Music / via datacloud Elliot Sharp: Experimental Music. Elliot Sharp combines a keen interest in math, musical genius, and not a small number of handsaws and other tools in his search for elusive sounds. In an interview at The Morning News, Sharp ranges over an immense range of topics, including politics, cyberpunk literature, and technology in music And then when cyberpunk happened—Gibson’s first writing, Lucius Shepard, Pat Cadigan, and Jack Womack—I became associated with the cyberpunk movement because I was one of the first to use computers in performance, in an improvisational context, in 1986, with my Atari ST when I was doing a project called “Virtual Stance.” And then I switched to laptops in ‘91. I had the first PowerBook laptop—the PowerBook 100—and started doing concerts with that, using it to control various samplers and software devices. And that put me automatically in the cyberpunk vein. And a lot of my titles and concepts were informed by Philip K. Dick and things from cyberpunk, the things that Gibson talked about. Toward the end, Sharp edges into philosophy. Sharp (and the interviewer) are, on the whole, not fond of postmodernism: [Interviewer]: A couple of years ago some academic postmodernists assembled at the University of Chicago and declared themselves... [datacloud] 10:22:34 PM

The Storm 3 The Storm 3 Iuliana posted a photo: Mixed technique on paper inspired by William Shakespeare's play "The Storm." Set design scketch... - Iuliana [Iuliana's Photos] 3:18:34 PM

Faust-12 Faust-12 Cartoonist posted a photo: Goethes Faust, mit Bildern von F. Simm. Ohne Jahresangabe, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt Stuttgart und Berlin. Probably from the twenties or thirties. - Cartoonist [Cartoonist's Photos] 3:12:42 PM

White on White 15 White on White 15 o2ma posted a photo: - o2ma [o2ma's Photos] 3:07:09 PM

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From Metastar JazzMutant Lemur.. The JazzMutant LEMUR is a "MultiTouch Control Surface"—a touch-sensitive tablet, in demarketroided terms—that is designed to act as an interface ... [Metastar] 9:27:07 AM