oscillation series. sonic theories and practices - NO. 2 date: 5th of September 2010, Sun, 6pm. title: Sonic Archeology? with: Shintaro Miyazaki and Martin Howse (moderated by Jan Thoben) place: General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c, Berlin.
Talks will be in english language After the first session the 2nd session will dedicate itself to “Sonic Archeology”. Abstract Shintaro Miyazaki: [Trans]-Sonic Archeology of Computational Assemblages On 27th of Sept. 2007 a secret 1972 paper from the National Security Agency’s in-house journal Cryptologic Spectrum with the title “TEMPEST: A Signal Problem” was declassified. “To state the general problem in brief: Any time a machine is used to process classified information electrically, the various switches, contacts, relays, and other components in that machine may emit radio frequency or acoustic energy.” Trans-sonic archeology as a method of a sonic theory can be useful for understanding our everyday informational devices, which store, transmit and manipulate information. Two opposed methods are suggested by the contributor. Firstly a hardware based and secondly a software based method for investigating important affective, tactile, mental and rhythmical effects of those technologies. Both methods will be explained shortly after introducing to the audience the general concepts of such a sonic archeology. Profile of Shintaro Miyazaki: born 1980 in Berlin. Grew up in Basle, Switzerland and studied Media Theory, Musicology and Philosophy at University of Basle, Humboldt University Berlin, Technical University Berlin and Free University of Berlin, M.A. in Basle 2007. Since summer 2007 he is an independent PhD Researcher at the Chair for Media Theory of Humboldt University Berlin (Wolfgang Ernst). Description of artistic project “Psychogeophysics: archaeology, geophysics and psychogeography” by Martin Howse: “The pick was [then] used to hammer on the surface, and by this means, the Angle Ditch was discovered. The sound produced by hammering on an excavated part is much deeper than on an undisturbed surface, a circumstance worth knowing when exploring a grass-grown downland,though not applicable to cultivated ground.” [Augustus Pitt Rivers. Excavations in Cranborne Chase. Volume IV. 1895] The relation between such techniques of archaeological prospecting and TEMPEST, the study of compromising emissions (including sound), can easily be made with both interventions pointing towards a certain revealing of that which is. In highly paranoiac manner, psychogeophysics seeks to expand the terms of this simple equation to embrace psychogeography and urbanism, proposing an exchange between imaginary realms, the digital and the observed, which allows for speculative notions such as data sedimentation or for the application of techniques including those of version control to urban locales. Martin Howse will present and demonstrate a short series of psychogeophysical investigations and interventions with particular attention to the epistemic aspects of sound. Profile of Martin Howse is an artist/programmer and theorist, born 1969 in the UK, educated Goldsmiths College of Fine Art London, 1989 and based in Berlin. Martin has exhibited, performed and collaborated worldwide using custom, open source software and hardware modules for data/code processing and generation. More: http://sonictheory.com/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
