dear Johannes and Alan,
just to let you know - I enjoy your conversation - reading it when ever I can,
going back to a text written a few month's
ago and starting to listen to the eyebeam mp3's today - but they will have to
wait - they ask all my attention - I can't do
anything else at the same time
this is not radio
warm greetings
Annie
ps
I would love to listen to the hopefully soon upcoming 24 hours event - please
don't forget to make a lot of fuss about it
Alan
it could be interesting to couple it up with a 24 hour listening event on a
platform like waterwheel - maybe even organising
a parallel online jam (one stream coming from your live event)...
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Johannes Birringer
<[email protected]> wrote:
dear Alan
oh, not at all, i think it was a small language misunderstanding.
I used the term "barely" in a temporal sense, reflecting on how and
whether this
radio, this netbehavior list, can be used for sustainable conversation,
and it obviously can, but I find it
harder.
For me it felt that you had posted a very interesting and thoughtful
response to my comment
in the middle of the night, and even though I was writing back barely 14
hours later
and a few times zones apart, it seemed as if our conversation about
durational
performance and music, detuning and d?tourning, and collective or
communal playing duration,
had already passed/past its time, its due, it was gone, it seemed ages
ago that we met, we talked, and
that you regretted the lack of feedback on the "radio", the network, the
audiences.
(It would interest me what others here think about reception, feedback,
time, reflection and critique, or do we
often post our stuff
and hurry on to the next stuff we do, without pausing?)
Alan you had already moved on to post the "scent of them" text, and your
comments on the sung lisu.
Aharon then added a personal detail, regarding Edinburgh, and that
interested me ?? the moments when our
biographies
come into the picture for a tiny moment, and when you then mentioned your
sleeplessness, and that
this Palgrave book (?55, Amazon has it for ? 47) is too expensive, i had
to reflect for a moment on that
one too.
Yes, that book (hardback) is too expensive, and I only have it because i
am in it and the publisher sent me a
complimentary copy,
and after reading your text on dead music, i noted that you are cited
frequently in some chapters (regarding
your dead avatars).
The book goes back to a festival, "Intimacy: Across Visceral and Digital
Performance," held in London in 2007,
at which my company showed a dance work
and my design collaborator and I conducted a workshop on
sensing/sensortizing, and after the 2007 festival, the
curators decided it would be a nice
idea to do a book. Well, it just came out and so it only took 4 years.
Now that is a strange time frame, four years, compared to how we post and
move on here, and that is why i
enjoyed your reflections
on other times, your ride across the desert in 1987 after we all left
Dallas, and i agree with you (and then you
contradict yourself), the desert is never empty,
and oil cities (like Texarkana) don't rise out of nothing and descent
into nothing. Probably you were
addressing a sense of history
and sedimentation, other purposes, within/against a sense of the wilding
of rich deserts.
(yes, Baudrillard's speculations are quite poor ideological smoke
signals; there is no Paris, Texas)
In my next posting i will try and comment on a musical experience i had
last night,
and an instrument i saw in action that I enjoyed a lot, the santur.
best
Johannes Birringer
[Alan schreibt]
Johannes, I'm glad you mentioned the Texas experience because I've seen
nothing else like it. I think the cities are around 400 miles apart, and
the rest is unbelievably emptied. But then I remember reading Baudrillard
on the emptiness of America and finding myself angry, since he assumed
that the desert is blank or void, ignoring the fact it's been home to
Native Americans and wildlife, that it was cultural, responds culturally,
just as much as 'comforting' cities might. It reminds me also of Herzog's
notion of the jungle which was also home and inhabited and cultural /
political, not a brutal or 'seething' nature. My words. Texas is
disruptive too because of the nature of the cities - I remember Marlis
Schmidt who was from Midland, an odd oil city rising out of nothing,
descending into nothing. I wonder if the Sahara is like that.
I did read Sandy's essay in Chatzichristodoulou's book which I could never
afford, but Sandy sent me a copy, and Yes!
So I just wrote John Cayley about seeing him in Providence and the news
came on about another John Cayley who just got charged for reckless
truck driving which killed a police officer. Strange.
Anyway. If I barely replied, I probably did so under a stress medication -
I've been trying to go to sleep around midnight because of our current
stress of things, and Azure has to get up at 6:15 to get to work as a
part-time teaching assistant (there's a hiring freeze for full-tine
teachers here). So at 4:15 I may not have been all there, I probably woke
out of a nightmare (today's was about the Vietnam War).
- Alan,
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